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April 22, 2004
NotCon NotPad
So here are the thoughts so far for presentations I could do at NotCon. Piers kindly tried to shift my powerpoint block, but I seem to currently have rebelled against most of what he suggested. And the one tempting idea he suggest I know I'm unlikely to be allowed to do by my current employers.
- Time Management for the slightly crap
Taking Danny's talk about "Tech Secrets of Overprolific Geeks" and turning it into things for those who aren't necessarily geeky, nor necessarily overprolific. And anyway, nearly all time management books are written by people who were organised already. And none of them have our wierd semi-ADD mindset. - So what *are* they thinking?
The inner thoughts of the people who commission ideas - an overview of what they're looking for, so you can make sure your ideas fit the bill. Or not bother with that idea. - Fifty Things in five minutes
A blisteringly fast list of tiny snippets of wisdom I've picked up over the years. For example: design multilingual sites in german as they have the longest words. - Shit I'm a manager
A techie? No real social skills? Suddenly got staff? Some essentials for coping when the Red Dwarf T-shirt hits the bin. - Jesus when will you learn?
Mistakes not to make again in interactive narrative, gaming or social software design. (But I'll lose all credibility when people find out I've only played about 5 games in the last few years). - Now New Media is Old
A sort of inverse Carolyn Maryvn - I'll have been online for ten years by the time of the presentations. I could do 30s on each one of those years. It would even have sex in it.
There's still something to be got out of my old crusade around 'New Media for the stupid' - but I'm not sure if that's going to be mistaken for a usability talk and leave people disappointed. And I'm also not sure I'm ready or this would be the appropriate forum.
And yes, one day I'd like to work for the BBC again, and I know that if I started on 'a critique of the beeb's internal new media structure' I wouldn't be able to stop. To whit, I've already had to rewrite what was in the quotes because it had too much swearing in.
The sad thing is, I'm probably up to doing a full half-hour on any of these. Or one that fits a whole load of them together. And it would probalby be relatively witty, interesting and inspiring. I just don't know if I can be arsed.
Posted by Tom Dolan at April 22, 2004 09:02 PM
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What about 'New Media for the Terminally Uninspired'. I'd go to that presentation. In fact, I'd be a guinea pig for it. :-)
Oh, and in that penultimate paragraph, in relation to new media within, um, well, you know - I noticed that you used the word 'structure'. Hmm. Structure implies, well, er, structure. Unless you know something that I haven't noticed recently. :-)
Posted by: Vaughan at April 22, 2004 09:42 PM
I could really do with "Time management for the slightly crap". So many ideas that I can't decide which ones to work on.
Posted by: Ian at April 22, 2004 10:14 PM
I'm still wavering about doing a rehash of life hacks or something different. I probably need to be forced to do the something different, so if you do the time management piece, i will be forced to do more work. Which would be good.
(And I can steal your ideas for lifehacks, hooray!)
Posted by: danny at April 23, 2004 12:51 AM
Well, we should probably compare notes at least. Don't want to bore the tits off people who went to EtCon!
Posted by: Tom Dolan at April 23, 2004 01:25 AM
All the ideas are fantastic. I could really do with something on White Collar Crime - An Introduction, and How To Get Away With Constructive Dismissal.
Posted by: James Goss at April 23, 2004 05:06 PM
I'll take "Shit I'm a Manager" for 50 minutes please
Posted by: Ewan at April 27, 2004 11:51 AM
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