Talks and presentations
I've spoken at a number of conferences over the past few years. The talks have been on a variety of topics, some based on work from my employer though more frequently based on my personal work. There is quite a bit of overlap though.
The talks below link to the presentation or an MP3 if available and if I wrote about the session, then I've linked to my blog post or a co-presenter's blog.
For future presentations, have a look at the homepage.
- July, 2008 - Open Tech 2008, London
- A short talk entitled Distributed, Federated, Partial, exploring some of the downsides to url / domain centric identity.
- May, 2008 - XTech 2008, Dublin
- My talk is entitled Data portability for whom? Some psychology behind the tech, it is on the Thursday afternoon. I'm also on the programme committee for XTech again this year.
- May, 2008 - Web Seminar for Society of Scholarly Publishing
- I'm giving a broad overview of social software at this seminar on the 15th. You need to register for the event.
- April, 2008 - Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008
- I gave an updated version of the Website Psychology talk I gave at BarcampLondon3.
- March, 2008 - SXSWi 2008, Austin, Texas
- I spoke on a panel entitled “Green Software, Really?”, following up on the ideas from foocamp from June last year.
- February, 2008 - O'Reilly Tools of Change, New York
- I gave a talk entitled “From Buyers of Books to a Community of Readers”. I explored how communities and published content can interact successfully, my toc08 slides are on slideshare.
- February, 2008 - Social Graph Foo Camp, Sebastopol, CA
- I ran a session about the psychology behind persistent identity and learning a lot too.
- November, 2007 - BarcampLondon3
- I gave a talk about cognitive psychology and how it applies to web development, entitled Website Psychology, the slides are on slideshare.
- November, 2007 - Eduserv OpenID event
- I spoke on “The changing identity of research”, exploring how researchers and OpenID will interact together.
- June, 2007 - foocamp 2007
- I ran a session on green code, based on some of the ideas in the green code blog post on takeoneonion.org.
- June, 2007 - O'Reilly - Tools of Change for Publishing 2007
- I spoke on social software and how it can work for publishers, specifically thinking about books. The presentation is available and it is also on slideshare.
- May, 2007 - xtech 07
- I gave a talk entitled “What is your provenance?” (2.4MB PDF) I looked at networks of social networks and similar themes.. You can read the abstract of the talk and the full paper on the xtech07 website. I am a member of the Xtech Programme Committee.
- I subsequently gave this talk at Google in June, the video of the provenance talk is on google video.
- I also gave a lightning talk on the internet time ideas I spoke about at barcamp, I've put together a set of slide in PDF format, (pre)Internet Time.
- February, 2007 - BarcampLondon2
- I spoke about “Time, History and the Internet” (15MB PDF), I wrote about the presentation on takeoneonion. This was an extended version of the session I ran at eurofoo, but given more as a presentation.
- September, 2006 - eurofoo
- I gave a session on “preweb data”, as we put our back catalog online we are forgetting about all the context that went with that content when it was originally published.
- September, 2006 - RailsConf Europe 2006
- Tom Armitage and I gave a talk entitled “Everything's Interconnected: Polymorphism as Design Pattern for Social Software”, which covered the high level parallels between polymorphic association and social network design, there is an MP3 of Tom and I speaking.
- July, 2005 - OpenTech
- I gave a short talk entitled “Every page tells a story”, which discussed some ideas around how literature can become a social experience and how we can understand the past. SocialDocuments.com has the gist of the Novel Context idea and other thoughts on annotation.
- May, 2005 - Xtech05
- I spoke about talkeuro, a version of the European Constitution which I made open for annotation. The talk was entitled “Open(ed) data, now what — bringing the European Constitution to the people”. You can read the presentation PDF, or the paper I wrote for the conference proceedings.
- March, 2005 - O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference
- Tom Coates, Matt Biddulph and I spoke about “Programme Information Pages: An Architecture for an On-Demand World” based on work at the BBC. The presentation is available.
- Mark Simpkins and I gave a talk on “Public Documents as weblogs”, around engaging people with the consultation process.
