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2006 Interactive Panel Schedule

Everything subject to change.

Sat, Mar 11th   Sun, Mar 12th   Mon, Mar 13th   Tue, Mar 14th  

Saturday, March 11th

10:00 am • Traditional Design and New Technology

10:00 am • Better Blogging Brainstorming

10:00 am • Looking for XML in All the Wrong Places

10:00 am • Beyond Folksonomies: Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma

10:00 am • Podcasting 2.0

11:00 am • BattleDecks: Southwest Invitational

11:30 am • We Got Naked, Now What?

11:30 am • Ajax: What Do I Need to Know?

11:30 am • Daniel Gilbert Presentation: How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times

11:30 am • Book Digitization and the Revenge of the Librarians

11:30 am • Convergence and Transformation: A Whole New Creative World

11:30 am • How to Be A Web Design Superhero

2:00 pm • Jim Coudal / Jason Fried Opening Remarks

2:00 pm • Justin Hall Presentation

3:30 pm • James Surowiecki Presentation: The Wisdom of Crowds

3:30 pm • How to Increase Creativity at Work

3:30 pm • How to Make $$ With Your Blog Design Skills

3:30 pm • Cyberplace: Online in Offline Spaces -- and Vice Versa

3:30 pm • Choosing the Right Design Partner

3:30 pm • How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting

5:00 pm • Starting Small: Web Business for the Rest of Us

5:00 pm • Tantek Çelik Presentation: Creating Building Blocks for Independents

5:00 pm • How to Develop for (Convergent) Personal Devices

5:00 pm • Public Square or Private Club: Does Exclusivity Strengthen or Dilute?

5:00 pm • How to Create Passionate Users

5:00 pm • Designing for Global and Local Social Play

Sunday, March 12th

10:00 am • Respect Your ElderBloggers

10:00 am • What's Hot in Web Applications

10:00 am • How (and Why) to podCast an Event

10:00 am • Design and Social Responsibilty

10:00 am • Sink or Swim: The Five Most Important Startup Decisions

10:00 am • Venture Capital vs. Credit Cards: Funding Strategies for Digital Convergence Businesses

11:00 am • Meet Judy Jetson: How Technology is Transforming 21st Century Teens

11:30 am • The Future of Education in a Digitally Convergent World

11:30 am • Tagging 2.0

11:30 am • Smaller, Faster, Lighter

11:30 am • Increasing Women's Visibility on the Web: Whose Butt Should We Be Kicking?

11:30 am • How to Make the Most of Maps

11:30 am • Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide

2:00 pm • Keynote Conversation: Heather Armstrong / Jason Kottke

2:00 pm • Demystifying the Mobile Web

3:30 pm • Running Your New Media Business

3:30 pm • DIY Now More Than Ever

3:30 pm • League of Technical Voters

3:30 pm • Web 2.1: Making Web 2.0 Accessible

3:30 pm • Bloggers in Love: Intimacy, Technology and Mask-Making

3:30 pm • Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

5:00 pm • Wild Web Wrestling: Standardzilla vs Tabelella

5:00 pm • Serious Games for Learning

5:00 pm • Blogging While Black Revisited

5:00 pm • Holistic Web Design: Finding the Creative Balance in Multi-Disciplined Teams

5:00 pm • How to Roll Your Own Web Conference

5:00 pm • Revenge of the Blogs: Election 2008

Monday, March 13th

10:00 am • Remixing Business for a Convergent World

10:00 am • Digital Preservation and Blogs

10:00 am • How to Maintain a Design Playground

10:00 am • Cluetrain: Seven Years Later

10:00 am • CSS Problem Solving

10:00 am • Web Standards and Search Engines: Searching for Common Ground

11:30 am • Standard Deviation: Hacks and Dirty Tricks for the Web

11:30 am • Web Standards and SEO: Searching for Common Ground, Part 2

11:30 am • Building Buzz for Your Web Project

11:30 am • Does Your Blog Have a Business?

11:30 am • Microformats: Evolving The Web

11:30 am • The Future of Darknets: Can Hollywood See the Light?

2:00 pm • Content Distribution the Mobile Web

2:00 pm • Craig Newmark Keynote Interview

3:30 pm • The Perfect Pitch: How to Attract Money for Your Digital Convergent Business

3:30 pm • Selling Big Ideas to Big Clients

3:30 pm • WTF: WaSP Task Force Panel: Getting the Job Done Right

3:30 pm • Designing for Community with 'Zero-Advertising' Brands

3:30 pm • Peter Morville Presentation: Ambient Findability

3:30 pm • Creative Subplot: The Viral Edition

5:00 pm • Design Eye for the List Guy

5:00 pm • The New Startup Cultures

5:00 pm • Bootstrapping Your Digital Convergence Business

5:00 pm • What People Are Really Doing on the Web

5:00 pm • How to Blog for Money by Learning From Comics

5:00 pm • WaSP Annual Meeting

Tuesday, March 14th

10:00 am • Behind the Scenes: Developing OS X and Longhorn

10:00 am • How to Develop Digitally Convergent Devices for Cars

10:00 am • How to Add Video to Your Blog

10:00 am • Open Science

10:00 am • Building a Start-Up Technology Company

10:00 am • How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards

11:30 am • How to Be a Virtual World Entrepreneur

11:30 am • The Future of Radio

11:30 am • Commons-Based Business Models

11:30 am • Convergence and Advertising

11:30 am • Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps

11:30 am • Video Blog Business Models

2:00 pm • Burnie Burns Keynote

3:30 pm • Democratization of the Moving Image

3:30 pm • RSS: Not Just for Blogs Anymore

3:30 pm • Open Source Management: Walking the Walk

3:30 pm • The Orthley Children and Their Computer

3:30 pm • Dogma Free Design

3:30 pm • Consumer is the Producer: DIY Media

3:30 pm • Secret Sex Lives of Video Games

5:00 pm • Cashing In Or Selling Out: The Future of the Independent Web

5:00 pm • Bruce Sterling Presentation: The State of the World

5:00 pm • Online Politics: Fast, Cheap and Allows for Control