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Web2Expo in NYC

September 22, 2008 - 7:55pm

Tuesday, September 16

Rich UX Documentation - 9am-12pm

Wednesday, September 17

Knowledge Sharing by Design - 9am-9:50am

Moving Pictures - 10:05am-10:55am

Bottoms Up and End to End: Apply the Wisdom of Crowds to Businesses - 11:10am-12:00pm

Lessons Learned in Scaling and Building Social Systems - 1:20pm-2:10pm

New York's Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent - 2:45pm-3:10pm

The Death of the Grand Gesture - 3:10pm-3:20pm

High Order Bit - 3:20pm-3:35pm

The DIY Guide to Growing a Company - 3:35pm-3:45pm

Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape - 3:45pm-4:00pm

Thursday, September 18

Enterprise Radar - 9:05am-9:35am

It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure. - 9:35am-10am

Good to Great: Achieving Product Excellence in Web 2.0 - 10:30am-11:20am

Chrome Developer Session - 11:35am-12:25pm

Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications - 2pm-2:50pm

The Post-Hype State of Virtual World Marketing: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why - 3:05pm-3:55pm

Friday, September 19

Arianna Huffington in Conversation with Tim O'Reilly - 9:05am-9:35am

(Re)making the Internet: Accounting for the Future of Information, Communication and Entertainment Technologies - 9:35am-9:45am

What ManyEyes Knows - 9:45am-9:55am

Organizing Chaos: The Growth of Collaborative Filters - 9:55am-10:05am

Because We Make You Happy - 10:05am-10:15am

Next Generation of Video Games - 10:15am-10:25am

The Real Future of Technology - 10:25am-10:45am

The Future of Browsers - 11am-11:50am

Design Case Studies: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 12:05am-12:55am

Design and User Experience in an Agile Process - 2:25pm-3:15pm

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I passed!

August 31, 2008 - 1:32pm

So, after six weeks of distance education classes through City Tech (New York City College of Technology), I've passed their Introduction to Python 2.5 final exam. Yay! Ok, so it really was an intro class, and I have a lot more to learn, but it was a verifiable start. And even though I signed up for a reason which hasn't come to fruition yet, other reasons for knowing Python have developed - so double yay.

One thing I've realized in the past two distance education classes is that, if you're really trying to learn something, they are as good as and easier than traditional ones. For awhile even, I considered trying to get a certificate over the wire...maybe HCI from Rensselaer. But two things work against me there: I'm strapped for cash, and I'd like to push back from the web work for awhile (notice I now have two different résumés above).

So how do I learn anything without sinking a bunch of dough on books? I came to the conclusion a while back that spending money on technology books was a waste of funds. They're expensive and they're only useful for about a year - when the technology changes, you can't even give them away. So I've turned to library and e-Books. I currently have memberships to both the NYPL Online and Ferguson Online. The Maya 8 book I'm (slowly) reading is an actual book, though, that Ferguson was able to get for me.

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