cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Vancouver is indeed a special place for me. I’ll take any bait to attend a conference there, though no incentive is needed for Northern Voice. It always has been, and even with its growth this year to over 500 attendees, more than your garden variety slap a name tag on my and call me Joe kind of conference. [Medieval Latin cnferentia, from Latin cnferns, cnferent-, present participle of cnferre, to bring together; see confer.] The Latin origin for the word for this event mentions nothing of bludgeoning by PowerPoint or Conference Chicken, so none of the normal conference stuff that makes my fur itch really happens at Northern Voice. Proof? Check out the kind of chicken that they served here: tise cc licensed flickr photo shared by Ariane Colenbrander At my first MooseFest in 2006 I remember then the compulsion to try and capture via blogging every bit [...]
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LiveScribed Northern Voice Presentation
Nancy LiveScribed Me! by cogdogblog posted 22 Feb ’09, 11.25am MST PST on flickr Mucho gracias to Nancy White for using my new LiveScribe pen to record audio and graphic notes of my Say/Blog It With Pictures session at Northern Voice. The pen records the audio: cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/nv09.mp3 and in the micro-dot notebook synchronizes each pen stroke to the audio spoken at time it was written, so rather than having to take stenographic monk-like verbatim notes, you can do highlights, or graphics. The LiveScribe software on the Mac is woefully pre-beta-ish; ultimately, it will be able to publish the package as a flash media piece that plays back the notes with sound. Here is a Photoshopped collage of Nancy’s beautiful notes. Thanks ChocoNancy! http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/nv09 While building the MediaRSS files by hand is rather tedious, I am excited about more use of CoolIris. I am thinking of perhaps a simple Google Spreadsheet [...]
