Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes?

⇾ Visit: Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes?

Smashing Conference in Barcelona already took place in October this year. I have been there and took photos, but a few things made it difficult for me to release them up to now. I was organising my beyond tellerrand event edition in Berlin, my wife ruptured her achilles tendon before this and I was complete exhausted after Berlin. Sorry for the long wait. Here are a few impressions from this year’s SmashingConf in Barcelona.

Jeremy Keith has written a book again. It is called Resilient Web Design, similar to the talk Resilience, he gave earlier this year at beyond tellerrand. But instead of printing and selling it, he put it on the web. You ca read it right there. For free. What are you doing here still?

Go, read it …

I often have a smile on my face, if I read another of many Facebook posts by Yuko, where she rants about the emails she gets from people asking her to work for free. Or I love the part, where Mr. Bingo talks about the many tries, where people want to have him working for free for a certain project. Lately, at beyond tellerrand in Berlin, Jeff Greenspan gave a lovely and entertaining talk, in which he also speaks about pitches, where someone says how much reputation he can gain from working for this project in parts of it and I could go on listing friends and people, who continuously get asked to work for free. Which in the first place is noting bad at all, but the people/companies asking them are not those who can’t afford paying them in these cases. There are mostly well-known and big companies who earn so much, that they should be able to easily pay those artists for their work.

The reasons for writing this is, that Jessica Hische, who also often gets ask to work for no profit by and for-profit company, posted a great email reply on Twitter. What I like in her reply is, that she is neither going crazy, because she is super angry, getting asked the billionth time nor is she getting sarcastic. She has written a well understandable and calm reply. A good template for everybody who is in a similar position.

My set of photos from “A day with Shopify”, which took place in Bristol on December 5th, 2016.

I haven't done much since I ran beyond tellerrand in Berlin a month ago. I am still kind of recovering from it and have to take care of my family. I have to send out a couple of emails to attendees and other people and then this is done. But before I do this, I had a short trip to Bristol, where Keir Whitaker invited me to be part of a Shopify event and asked me to take photos of the two days.

These photos here are taken on the evening of December 4, where Gavin Strange and Mr. Bingo have spoken. I had a lovely evening with lovely people as you can see. Thanks to Shopify for organising it. Photos of day two from A Day with Shopify are going to be released very soon as well.

ffconf is a one-day event with a great vibe, lovely atmosphere and a well curated line-up each and every year. This year Julie and Remy Sharp ran ffconf twice. That means they ran the event on Thursday and on Friday again, which was not meant to be a two-day event, but a two times one-day event. My try to explain this on its own maybe already shows one of the issues they had to deal with, but I think many of the things Remy writes in his blog post, are a great learn for everybody running events. Thanks Remy for writing this. And one day, I manage to attend again!

⇾ Visit: The Experience Running An Event Twice

On Saturday I decided to go to London to meet a few people the Monday after. So here I am. Waiting for my friend John, whom I want to meet for lunch. I thought I waste a bit of time bevore we meet at Covent Garden and visit the Apple store. Done this, but was through pretty quick. They are always the same anyways. So I get out again and look right. Who was leaning against the wall? Dan Rubin! How random is this? I haven't seen Dan for quite a while and was very happy to see him. Especially as I have written him right before my last Berlin event and we discussed not having seen each other for way too long.

Anyways, I think there is some reasons for things like this to happen. Made my day.

Keir Whitaker started the Backstories. This is a new interview show with people from the world of web, design, digital, and beyond. So it is a bit like what I do with TWUMBLE, but only in English of course. It runs under the label of his and Kieran’s Bck To Front Show. Each show is about 30 minutes and I had the honour of being the first guest in this new show. I had a lovely time chatting with Keir and hope you are going to enjoy the outcome of our conversation.

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Still fighting a cold, but good to be back in #Amsterdam for #fronteers16

⇾ Visit: Amsterdam for Fronteers 2016