CSSquirrel

I love web people conferences. I’ve only attended one so far, but the joys of web-related careers is that web people have a tendency to blog about pretty much any aspect of their existence (in Mindflykateer Karina’s case, her typical topic of bowels might be a bit too much disclosure for most, but she’ll be damned if she’ll let that stop her). Conferences tend to be on that list of typographical diarrhe.

The reason for my commentary is An Event Apart: San Francisco. Did I attend? Alas, no, although I need to get around to visiting that city without my ex-girlfriend, since my only post-childhood visit to that metropolis was ruined by her refusal to check out the Chinatown lunar festival that was going on mere feet from our hotel in favor of a swing dance event (note, I can’t dance. At all. She was going to dance for her).

However, thanks to awesome attendees, I can get a lot of the guts of the event via awesome summaries such as this one by Jeremy Keith, discussing Day One of the event. His post on the subject manages to capture the digestible, ethereal essence of the conference while shedding the malign, useless husk of buzzwords and coffee cups that pile up in such events.

This is excellent. It makes me feel like I’m learning useful things despite this week’s obsession with drawing robots with vector graphics. Hooray!

Tags: aea, conferences

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