Penguicon: audio of my Blogging co-panel; attendee stats; Internet Archive
July 23, 2007 – 10:33 amIf you’ve been wishing you could have attended Penguicon, good news! The audio from my “Blogging Your Life Without Losing Your Job or Your Mind” co-panel with Gini Judd is now up on the Internet Archive thanks to the good folks at Penguicon (staff). No clue of the Mysterious Chocolate Explosion comes through in the audio, but then, I wasn’t even aware of it at the time. More about the two panels in a previous entry.
Side note about Penguicon: the gender and age mix of presenters, panelists and attendees was pretty good to my eyes; more like a science fiction con than some of the technical conferences I’ve attended. Our panel happened to be all women presenting (though I think there were more male presenters overall), but the audience was fairly evenly distributed, as I recall).
I now have an Internet Archive Library Card so I could request a correction and write a (corrective) review for the Blogging entry (Edit: it first listed the panelists from the first panel of the same name, myself and Cathy Raymond. This is fixed now.). If anyone has any tips about how *you* use your IA Library Card, please let me know!
3 Responses to “Penguicon: audio of my Blogging co-panel; attendee stats; Internet Archive”
Sarah, I have a team of uploaders, but I asked the person who uploaded this one to apply the correction. Thanks for pointing it out! -Matt
By Matt Arnold on Jul 24, 2007
You know what interests me that I think would interest you? The New Interface Advocate. It involves the mouseless GUI and a categorization of all human-computer interfaces into memorization-based and search-based. So far there are only five entries to this blog, and they are all great. These concepts need to be publicized at Penguicon and gain a wider traction in the Linux community. (For example, I can hardly wait for the Mezzo interface to be made available in Ubuntu.)
By Matt Arnold on Jul 24, 2007
Thanks, Matt!
Interesting HCI articles there; I’ve added that blog to my feed reader. I’ve never used a pen-tablet computer interface, but I can see how it would reduce repetitive-stress problems. I also know some field tech folks vastly prefer keyboards over mice for speed. The 83 comments after that entry (http://hci-matters.com/blog/?p=9#more-9) added quite a bit to my understanding of the pros and cons. As a CM person, I have something of a bias towards command-line interfaces (scriptability, repeatability).
It will be interesting to see how computer interfaces are affected by the drive for more and more types/combinations of mobile devices. I’d certainly be interested in attending a panel on alternative interfaces (where, when and how) at Penguicon next year.
Regarding the search v. memorization interfaces: Have you read Don’t Make Me Think? http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-7984245-4998825?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185295094&sr=8-1
By configures on Jul 24, 2007