Jure Cuhalev

How to make the consultations process that we have now better, without changing it? How  can we have more useful things within the system we have.
Second question is, if we start from nothing, what’s a sensible first step in the process.
Consultation is .. The government needs to do something, they need to go out and [...]

Poker
Cards, explaining how the standard 52 deck works. Trying the audience on probabilities. (Chance on getting the queen). Showing examples on Texas Hold them and explaining the rules.
When you have lots of cards from the suite on the table, the chance to get one of those cards, is smaller then 1 in 4. It’s about [...]

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Who needs to find your content? Examples are readers, potential users, customers etc.
Basic requirements:

You need to have an understanding of your potential audience. If you look at your site with wish to make it findable you have to understand your audience.
Semantic markup is good for marking up.
Good context
Accessibility
Search engine friendliness
No barriers [...]

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It’s a talk mostly about API, Mashups, Frameworks etc.
He wrote a really nice Twitter client - Snitter in Adobe AIR.
He’s also behind MyMileMarker, RoR
DjangoPlugables.com, a framework to manage plugins that tie into Django
Overheard.it, tracking what people say on twitter, and every-time some says “overheard”
Developers like to reinvent the wheel, it’s not [...]

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How do we make the data actionable? We get lot of data in form of demographics and our audience. “12% of movie goers preffer to go movies alone.” How do we figure out what to do with this piece of data?
Answering questions about Mental models. What’s a mental model, how do I use [...]