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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here:
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2007/10/16/some-links-146/>
The Structured Web - A Primer
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/structured_web_primer.php
Accessibility Is About Minimizing Requirements
http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/accessibility-minimize-requirements
Usability Tools Podcast: Are There Users Who Always Search?
http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2007/10/09/usability-tools-podcast-are-there-
users-who-always-search/
Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore
http://www.mpdailyfix.com/2006/06/w_why_blog_post_frequency_does.html
Social Networking? Bah! They're just web sites.
http://tetlaw.id.au/view/blog/social-networking-bah-theyre-just-web-sites/
UniView tool v5.0.0a
http://rishida.net/blog/?p=117
Visualizing Fitts¹s Law
http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law/
Adobe says Acrobat, Reader vulnerable to hacks
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=62892
css syntax in graph
http://www.rikkertkoppes.com/thoughts/css-syntax/
Diagnostic Styling
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/07/diagnostic-styling/
Breaking CAPTCHAs
http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/?p=147
Screen Readers and display:none
http://juicystudio.com/article/screen-readers-display-none.php
AnEventApart San Francisco Day One
http://www.silverstripe.com/aneventapart-san-francisco-day-one/
AnEventApart San Francisco: Day Two
http://www.silverstripe.com/aneventapart-san-francisco-day-two/
How VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Works
http://communication.howstuffworks.com/ip-telephony.htm
21 Facts About The Internet You Should Know!
http://www.bizwaremagic.com/quick_internet_history.htm
:-) turns 25
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/18/emoticon.anniversary.ap/index.html
Why you should be bad at something
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/why-you-should-be-bad-at-something/#com
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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WordCamp Melbourne
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Date: 17-Oct-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: WordCamp
WordCamp Melbourne will be held in the 'Pavillion' at the Watermark Bar,
Victoria Harbour Docklands on Saturday, November 17th from 12:00PM - 7:00
PM.
http://melbourne.wordcamp.org/
Sydney Web Standards Group Meeting
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Date: 18-Oct-07
City: Sydney (Australia)
Jo Kay: "Second Life and moblogging"
Mick Liubinskas: "Web Apps: A Trillion Tiny Transactions".
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=99
Canberra IA Cocktail Hour
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Date: 18-10-07
City: Canberra (Australia)
Ruth Ellison: "IA in Government: A Case Study"
Vision Australia: Designing for an Accessible Website
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Date: 19-10-07
City: Hobart (Australia)
These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy
contexts and internationally recognised requirements. They are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals,
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers, designers
and web contract managers.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=52
Pragmatic Web
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Date: 22-10-07 to 23-10-07
City: Tilburg ( The Netherlands)
The Pragmatic Web Conference is a unique forum to envision and debate how
the emerging social, semantic, multimedia Web mediates the ways in which we
construct shared meaning.
http://www.pragmaticweb.info/
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date: 23 October 2007
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Interaction Design
Understand both interaction design theory and principles as well as human
characteristics and behaviour in order to design usable applications,
intranet and internet sites.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html
Vision Australia: Designing for an Accessible Website
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Date: 23-10-07
City: Canberra (Australia)
These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy
contexts and internationally recognised requirements. They are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals,
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers, designers
and web contract managers.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=63
Next Generation Intranets for Government. Presented by Stamford Interactive
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Date: Wednesday, 24th October 2007
City: Canberra ACT
Category: Government Intranets
Usability expert Paul Cruse, from Stamford Interactive, will lead a
discussion on the evolution and future direction of government intranets.
The session includes real case studies presented from Federal Government.
http://www.stamfordinteractive.com.au/events/
Step Two Designs: Information Architecture Fundamentals
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Date: 26-Oct-07
City: Canberra ACT
One-day workshop run by Patrick Kennedy of Step Two Designs. This workshop
will present an introduction to information architecture
(IA), the core methodology for organising and designing information-rich
websites and intranets. Fundamental principles will be covered, along with a
hands-on exploration of practical techniques. A must for all web
teams.
http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/071026/
Making Links 2007
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Date: 30-Oct-07
City: Sydney NSW (Australia)
The 4th annual Making Links conference is one of Australia's leading forums
for workers in the not-for-profit and community sectors to showcase their
work and to explore current and emerging new media and information and
communications technology (ICT). This two-day conference has regularly
attracted delegates and presenters from many fields including health,
environment, education, business, government, philanthropy and human
services to discuss their experiences with ICT, multimedia and web
technology.
http://www.makinglinks.org.au/
Designing for an Accessible Website
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Date: 30-10-07
City: Sydney (Australia)
These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy
contexts and internationally recognised requirements. They are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals,
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers, designers
and web contract managers.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=62
Email Marketing Summit
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Date: 1-2 November 2007
City: Gold Coast Qld
The summit is designed to bring together Australia's leading email marketers
whilst simultaneously providing a rare opportunity to those new to the
industry to gain a wealth of insights and understanding.
http://www.emsaustralia.com.au/index.html
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
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Date: 05-Nov-07
City: Berlin (Germany)
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models,
development paradigms and design strategies and connects the European web
community. European designers, developers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers,
product managers and business strategists
http://www.web2expo.com/berlin
World Usability Day 2007
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Date: 8-Nov-07
World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products
important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.
http://www.worldusabilityday.org/
Transcending CSS: Modern Techniques For Designing A Beautiful Web
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Date: 15-Nov-07
City: Leicester (UK)
In this full-day session, designer and author of the best-selling
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design Andy Clarke will challenge you
to think differently about creating inspired design for web using meaningful
markup and CSS. The session will be packed full of visual inspiration,
backed up by practical techniques for creating amazing work for the web. If
you are a visual designer looking to advance your CSS skills with new
techniques and technologies, or a technically minded developer who wants to
understand more about working visually, this workshop will take your
knowledge of CSS to the limits of what is currently possible and beyond.
Tickets are still available for £100 which includes refreshments and lunch.
http://www.wfwp.co.uk/workshops/transcendingcss-15112007
Vision Australia: Writing for the Web Workshop
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Date: 16-Nov-07
City: Canberra ACT
Category: Content
This workshop will give you a good overview of the techniques that will make
your web content more effective.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=108
@media Ajax
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Date: 19-Nov-07 to 20-Nov-07
City: London (UK)
The Web is undergoing a revolution. Ajax - the technique of passing
data between server and browser without reloading the page - is
leading to faster, richer web applications with a markedly enhanced
user experience. The @media Ajax conference brings together some of
the leading figures in the field to explain how to best exploit this
"magic", from concept and design through to the underlying code.
http://www.vivabit.com/atmediaajax/
Digital Marketing and Media Summit 2007
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Date: 19-Nov-07
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Come and hear from industry leaders and visionaries including world-leading
digital creative Nick Law, Chief Creative Officer from R/GA (New York, USA)
discussing: Digital strategy best practice; Channel selection and balance;
Understanding the Australian online media landscape; Digital marketing by
generation and more...
http://www.elitemedia.com.au
Vision Australia: Designing for an Accessible Website
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Date: 21-Nov-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Accessibility
This workshops provides an introduction to accessibility issues within
Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements, and
an introduction to assessment tools and techniques.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=51
DebateIT: It¹s a World Wide Web of Women!
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Date: 21-Nov-07
City: Sydney (Australia)
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Museum of Sydney
Corner of Phillip & Bridge Street, Sydney
Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Cost: $30 (inc. GST)
Speaker(s): Laurel Papworth, Online Communities Strategist, World
Communities; Samantha Brett, Blogger, ASK SAM; Danielle Lehrer, Founder &
CEO, GoShout Pty Ltd; Liesl Capper, CEO & Co-founder, My Cybertwin; Sara
Goldstein, Co-founder, Mybargainqueen.com
Moderator: Lynne Spender, Consultant, DigiGen
http://www.slatteryit.com.au/events.html
A practical introduction to web accessibility
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Date: 21-Nov-07
City: London (UK)
This course is intended for organisations wanting a practical fast track
introduction to web accessibility the key issues and legal and business
cases. Until the 22nd of October you can book with a 10% early bird
discount!
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webintroaccessibility
Open Source Developers' Conference
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Date: 26-Nov-07 to 27-Nov-07
City: Brisbane (Australia)
The Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 is a conference designed by open
source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous
programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related
topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from
introductory pieces through to the deeply technical.
26th November - Tutorials
27th - 29th November - Technical program
28th November - Google Conference Dinner
Royal on the Park Hotel
Cnr Alice & Albert Streets
Brisbane CBD
Queensland
http://www.osdc.com.au/
Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2007:
http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html
Rich Media and latest trends in accessibility
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Date: 27-Nov-07
City: London (UK)
This course will introduce you to the key concepts and solutions in making
rich media accessible. It covers Flash and multimedia, including
captioning. Until the 22nd of October you can book with a 10% early bird
discount!
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webrichmedia
OZCHI 2007
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Date: 28-Nov-07 to 30-Nov-07
City: Adelaide (Australia)
OZCHI is Australia and New Zealand's leading forum for work in all areas of
human-computer interaction.
http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/OZCHI_2007
A very practical guide to testing against WCAG1.0 and WCAG2.0
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Date: 4-Dec-07
City: London (UK)
This course is intended for organisations wanting a practical fast track
guide to an effective audit process, covering WCAG 1.0, 2.0 and other key
areas of accessibility. Until the 22nd of October you can book with a 10%
early bird discount!
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webpracticaltesting
OzeWAI 2007
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Date: 05-Dec-07
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2007:
Web 2.0 accessibility - is it going to be easier?
Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online
environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and
services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification
standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are
emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses,
and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and
these developments at OZeWAI 2007.
http://www.ozewai.org/2007/index.html
Melbourne Web Standards Group Meeting
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Date: 06-Dec-07
City: Melbourne (Australia)
James Farmer, former online community manager for theage.com.au and
organiser of the first ever Melbourne WordCamp, will be talking about
blogging tools.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=102
Webstock 08
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Dates: 11-02-08 to 15-02-08
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
5 full-on days. 9 hands-on workshops. 19 kick-ass speakers. 24 must-see
presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web
standards, content, community, innovation & inspiration.
http://www.webstock.org.nz
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JOBS
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Job 1
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The Powerhouse Museum Web Services Unit is looking to fill two roles, one
working specifically on the Collections Australia Network (CAN) project, and
the other on a new experimental project called About NSW.
Both roles involve developing next generation web services for large
datasets and have a great deal of scope for creative experimentation. The
Collections Australia Network (CAN) role involves the continued development
of a national collections database portal as well as cultural tourism site.
CAN works across the Australian museums, galleries, libraries and archives
sector and there is a huge pool of data waiting to be explored, visualised,
and made more useful. CAN runs on a custom CMS built with PHP and
PostgreSQL.
The About NSW position involves developing cross-government 'mashups' -
pulling together data from mutliple sources using harvesting and scraping
methods and APIs, to create new services that mix this government content
with museum data. The About NSW project runs on Plone CMS, but has a lot of
room for experimental visualisation and mashup work outside of Plone.
We are a PHP shop but there is scope within these projects for
experimentation with Ruby on Rails.
Both roles are based on a 35hr working week (rather than the 35 hr day that
you might be more used to) and have flexible working conditions. The
positions are both temporary positions. The Museum is located in central
Sydney, a great place to be with summer approaching.
The full position descriptions and application process -
- http://www.jobs.nsw.gov.au/JobDetails.asp?JobAdvertId=65179
Australia Network Online Application Developer</a> (Clerk 7/8 - total
package up to AU$84,855)
- http://www.jobs.nsw.gov.au/JobDetails.asp?JobAdvertId=65207
<http://www.jobs.nsw.gov.au/JobDetails.asp?JobAdvertId=65207 >
About NSW Online Application Developer</a> (Clerk 7/8 - total package up to
AU$84,855)
Come and join the team! Applications close for both positions on 29 October
2007.
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