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	<description>i am a coder, an array explode(r). but here is where i write.</description>
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		<title>interactive infographics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Infographics try to convey large, complicated ideas in an extremely accessible, readable, and playful way. It&#8217;s data visualization in its most effective? accessible? controllable? dynamic? form.
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Presenter(s)
(lots)
Date
16 March 2010
Tags
#interinfo
Sites
Livefyre Conversation
Flowing Data
GOOD
walkingpapers.org
Hans Rosling
Eye Candy


Information graphics force their meaning upon us. Any time a graphic can use data to tell a wonderful story is much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/16/interactive-infographics/</link>
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		<title>web video thunderdome: branded vs. unbranded – you decide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditionally, tv events like superbowl allowed brands to reach a huge audience. Then came YouTube (141 million: number of people watching web videos in Feb 2010). Brands tended to start out thinking that Internet video was like a big movie theater that people will watch. Then moved into the area of &#8220;viral video&#8221;. But it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/16/web-video-thunderdome-branded-vs-unbranded-%e2%80%93%c2%a0you-decide/</link>
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		<title>forging your ideal career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you get beyond that point of being only a code-monkey. What&#8217;s your ideal career? What are the roadblocks? What are the solutions?
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Presenter(s)
Andrea Hill
Michael Krotscheck
Date
15 March 2010
Tag(s)
#forgingidealcareer


This is a core conversation, so I put up the computer and conversated.
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		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/15/forging-your-ideal-career/</link>
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		<title>make me a damn good manager!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy people do better things. It&#8217;s easier to be a bad manager, harder to be a manager that has a happy team that will &#8220;go to war for you&#8221;.
When you are managing teams, your job is to make people successful.
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Presenter(s)
Andre Gaulin
Date
15 March 2010
Tag(s)
#damngoodmanager
Site
damngoodmanager.com


What makes a good manager?

Helping people find the awesome in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/15/make-me-a-damn-good-manager/</link>
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		<title>results-only work environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This panel is packed. Could people really want a new way to work? And they gave us their book just for attending. That convinces me they believe themselves when they say &#8220;this is a social movement&#8221;.
Transition from attendance-based to results-based compensation
This is a culture change. Give people autonomy to do your job as long as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/15/results-only-work-environment/</link>
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		<title>beyond algorithms: search and the semantic web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Future of search from the perspective of semantics. Using the data on the web began with search (literal match), evolved to specific/contextual answers to specific questions, and could move on to asking the web to do something for you more than just answer questions.
Should we drop the term &#8220;Semantic Web&#8221; and replace it with &#8220;Computable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/14/beyond-algorithms-search-and-the-semantic-web/</link>
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		<title>your design process is killing you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are markers and paper being distributed, butcher paper being put up on the wall. Get ready to touch and feel, people.
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Presenter(s)
Sara Summers
Date
14 March 2010
Tag(s)
#designprocesskillingyou


Dr. Stuart Brown – Institute of Play. A strict no play no friend upbringing removes the ability to have empathy, trust, health, joy and mastery. Instead it brings depression, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/14/your-design-process-is-killing-you/</link>
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		<title>javascript architecture: the front and back of it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UI Architecture: all the stuff that it takes to process, package, deliver, and communicate with the client (templating url routing, data validatiion, formatting, ajax). &#8220;Between the front and back end&#8221;: stuff between presentational javascript and the backend logic. The middle end gives a web 2.0 app performance.
We need to talk about this because of issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/14/javascript-architecture-the-front-and-back-of-it/</link>
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		<title>kristina halvorson: rock star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/14/kristina-halvorson-rock-star/</link>
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		<title>content strategy FTW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ I usually don't copy/paste from the brochure, but this one had the best hook that I couldn't write better myself. ]
11th hour copy. Fix-it-later launches. Our users deserve more than the last-minute content we often get stuck with. And you have the power to change the game. Learn how to introduce (and sell) content [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://almostdaniel.com/2010/03/13/content-strategy-ftw/</link>
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