Great day at Barcamp Manchester

Barcamp Manchester, held yesterday at the MEN Media HQ, was great and made it clear to me once again that there’s a great web community up here in the North. A very exciting place to be at the moment, and I’m convinced things here will only get better. Barcamps are always an opportunity to meet new people, catch up with existing friends, and recharge your mind with some fresh ideas; this one was no exception. Interesting talks on Microformats, accessibility, PR, interactive narratives, developing for teenagers and NorthCrew.

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Daniel Morris: UK Teens & the Web at Barcamp Manchester

Dan Morris’ session on UK Teens & the Web was one of my favourites of the day, which you can see from my frantically scribbled notes (below). Dan’s working for a semi-autonomous BBC unit which produces online content for teenagers, and had some really interesting insights to share from his experience and some research they’d commissioned recently. The insights from their mainly subjective survey (in that the methodology was to meet with teenagers and talk with them, rather than quantative research) painted a picture which differed from the one which, I think, many of us assume is correct.

UK Teens & the Web - some of my notes

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Quick thoughts for 2008-02-23 (via Twitter)

  • Having the path to the current folder shown at the bottom of Finder is useful. I have no idea why it hadn’t been included before. #
  • Having that ridiculously noisy LaCie Quadra drive as my TimeMachine backup drive is going to drive me insane. #
  • Back in render time hell. Everything is sooooo slooooooow… .. . . . #