Jamin Hegeman

Category: Web

  • SXSW: Keynote Conversation: Heather Armstrong / Jason Kottke

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Jason Kottke, kottke.org Heather Armstrong Author, Blurbodoocery, dooce.com Jason: I don??????t like advertising. Didn??????t want that on his site. Heather: I didn??????t want to do a subscription model. Didn??????t want my readers to make unreasonable demands. Jason: I had 1500 bosses.…

  • SXSW: How to Create Passionate Users

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Moderator: Kathy Sierra People with a passion make the object/subject of their passion more meaningful than it is for the rest of us. People are irrational. Passionate people, not rational. Reverse engineering passion. No one is passionate about something they suck…

  • SXSW: Dogma Free Design

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Kelly Goto, Principal and CEO, gotomedia Luke Wroblewski, Principal Designer, Yahoo! Dirk Knemeyer, Principal, Involution Studios LLC Joel Grossman, Managing Principal, Pivotal Click What does dogma free design mean? Five things vital to the future of web design: Web design should…

  • SXSW: James Surowiecki Presentation: The Wisdom of Crowds

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Panelist: James Surowiecki The author of the book “The Wisdom of Crowds,” Surowiecki writes the popular businss column “The Financial Page” for the New Yorker. Under the right circumstances, groups of people can be extremely intelligent. Under the right conditions. Google:…

  • SXSW: Does Your Blog Have a Business?

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Phoebe Espiritu Eric Rice, Founder, Audioblog.com Shaun Inman Mint Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, Happy Cog Studios DL Byron Principal, Texturadesign Inc How do you turn a blog into a business. Zeldman: ALA 14 million page views a month. Because I worked in…

  • SXSW: CSS Problem Solving

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Panelists Ethan Marcotte, Creative Lead, Vertua Studios Dave Shea mezzoblue.com Charles Wyke-Smith, Dir of Production, Nacio Systems Christopher Schmitt, Principal, Heatvision.com Inc Tiffany B Brown, Owner, Webinista LLC/Georgia Institute of Technology These are my notes from this panel, and are not…

  • SXSW Quickie

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    It’s day two of SXSW, and it seems like a week has gone by since I arrived in Austin. Apparently, I missed out on blogging about day one. While I have been taking notes, I haven’t been able to find the time write about the panels, even though others have. I plan to write about…

  • MapSurface

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    Glenn Jones was nice enough to let me beta test MapSurface, which is a pretty nifty real-time stats and usability application that sits right on this very page. Press alt x to launch the widget and check it out for yourself. While you might find the very low statistics unimpressive, this type of application would…

  • Head in Flash

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    I’ve spent most of this week coding a Flash application for the portfolio section of a to-be-created University of Pittsburgh Office of Public Affairs site. And while it seems I have the capacity to write ActionScript (2.0/OOP), it’s not something I do all the time (so I’m rusty) or would want to do all the…