Dinah Katze is FOUND!

I am an idiot. Or clueless. Dinah turns out to be organizing this, this, and this.

It was soooo right in front of me. And right now it (Lonelygirl and the Beast: Alternate Reality Games as immersive marketing, art, and information) is happening right in front of me.

Jared Spool keynote

He's charming. And he is presenting original research results in an engaging, easy to listen to way, with lots of examples.

Great tips on designing navigation into websites by making sure links are 'scented' --that they drive users toward the information that they are looking for.

BTW: his thinktank is here.

Live! From OnlineNorthwest

Jared Spool just took the stage. I think for the first time the room is full! We actually had to close registration a few days ago because there's only so much space for everybody.

Anyway, he's making bad Chinese New Year jokes.

Bloggin on the bus

The shuttle bus has internet access! How cool is that?

That was a fantastic eclipse of the moon last night. Cold, clear, and big. Now it's off to Corvallis for OnlineNW--my last as a committee member. Next year will be concentrated on thesis and preparing for sabbatical. Oh--and I probably won't get paroled from the Learning Commons before then. I'm very much looking forward to see what we'll wind up doing.

OK--back to the homework. Hope I don't get bus sick.

Week 6, beer, Chinese movies

Well, it's that crunch time of the quarter where all I can really do is work, study, and sleep. Weirdly, I'm going to take a little trip next week, but maybe that will get me focussed somehow. Reading in the airport?

This past weekend I spent some quality time with the geographers at the KLCC beer fest. The collaboration brew was a dunkel weiss. None really blew me away (unlike the Ben Franklin recipe of a couple years ago). The best of the evening was Ninkasi's Tricerahops, which I haven't seen around yet. At one point I did get taken by the elbow to have something, but they were tapped out. Dangit.

The netflix plan to watch 1 English then 1 Chinese movie is working out pretty well so far. The only problem is that the import Chinese movies don't have Chinese subtitles, so I have to read the English. Dangit.

Happy super fat paczki Tuesday!

That's all I've got really.