Interrelativity

Category: Events

  • Hadoop Day in Seattle: Hadoop, Cascading, Hive and Pig

    I attended Hadoop Day – a community event to spread the love of Hadoop and Big Data – at Amazon's Pac-Med building in Seattle a week ago. I missed the morning session of the event, but recently became better acquainted with some of the dimensions of this space via the excellent overview and analysis by…

  • Wine, Cheese, Technology and Jobs in Seattle

    The Eastside Networking Event last night, organized by Andrew Vest, included an interesting mix of wines, cheeses and Seattle area technology companies looking to hire people – primarily, but not exclusively, engineers. At one point, one of the speakers asked how many people in the room were engineers, and only about one quarter or so…

  • Steve Miller Band at Chateau Ste. Michelle: a concert review

    We saw Steve Miller Band in our first concert of the 2010 summer season at Chateau Ste. Michelle on Wednesday night. CSM summer concerts tend to include a preponderance of rock stars from the 60s and 70s, some of whom are looking, sounding and performing better than others, so many decades after their heydays. Steve…

  • Serendipity Platforms, Unintended Consequences and Explosive Positivity at Web 2.0 Expo

    The keynotes on Day 1 of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco exposed a number of common threads, perhaps best summarized by a quote attributed to Tim O'Reilly by conference co-chair Sarah Milstein: We're trying to maximize the surface area of serendipity. The official theme of the event is "Platforms for Growth", and all…

  • Be Impeccable With Your Word: Confrontation vs. Condescension and Intimidation

    I’ve had a number of opportunities recently to reflect on don Miguel Ruiz‘ first agreement: be impeccable with your word. Amid public conversations at the recent Coffee Party kickoff meeting, private discussions about reviews of academic papers and proposals, and listening to an interview about the science of wisdom, I’ve gained a greater appreciation for…

  • The Coffee Party: Political Conversation vs. Confrontation

    I attended a Coffee Party kickoff meeting at SoulFood Books, Music and Organic Coffee House on Saturday. Approximately 40 people subdivided into smaller groups to discuss their hopes and fears about the state of the union. Amid the largely liberal perspectives voiced by several participants, I was delighted to discover an unanticipated diversity of opinions…

  • Some highlights from CSCW 2010

    CSCW 2010 – the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work – is the first CSCW I've missed since 1998. I tried following along remotely via the Twitter #cscw2010 hashtag, which may have been the next best thing to being there … but it was a distant second. I was glad to read a few…

  • Notes from @BigBlog meetup at Soulfood in Redmond

    I enjoyed attending my first SeattlePI.com BigBlog meetup last night at Soulfood Books, Music and Organic Coffee House in Redmond. Monica Guzman (@moniguzman) organized the event, and Nick Eaton (@njeaton), who writes the SeattlePI.com Microsoft blog, was the special guest. According to a tweet posted by Monica at the outset, other bloggers / tweeters /…

  • Motivations, Conversations and Book-Centered Sociality

    I attended talks by three authors last week – Daniel Pink, David Allen and Bryant Simon – all presenting their work in different formats, styles and contexts. Daniel Pink had a conversation with Warren Etheredge at a Biznik event on Tuesday night at Hotel 1000 Seattle about a range of topics, including Dan’s latest book,…

  • Notes from UbiComp 2009

    Having earlier posted some notes from the pre-conference Doctoral Colloquium and Hybrid Design Practices workshop, I've finally gotten around to compiling – and augmenting – some notes from the main technical program of UbiComp 2009, the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, held at the Disney Yacht Club in Orlando, Florida, last week. Before delving…