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“This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initialted by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by their design partners BERG.”

The future of reading is changing – we’re transferring what we’ve learned about printing and the printing press, and exchanging the ink for pixels.

There are a lot of questions to be answered, design problems to be solved – but I, for one, find the future of the written word very exciting.

via Kottke, via Fox, slingshot around the sun to land here at pixelkin.com.

Concept video outlining computer/human interaction. Apart from being interesting, the actual video is quite lovely.

Day Two of Web Directions dawned to a low, grey sky. Darling Harbour is beautiful, and even more so (I think) for the subduing of colours and reflections in the wet cobbles around the waterfront.

I had great fun with my Quad Camera iPhone application – capturing some of the colour and energy of the two days of great talks and interesting people. The Sydney Convention Centre is a wonderful venue for an event such as Web Directions – they put on really good, sensible, tasty food – and provided the most important part of any conference: baristas for good coffee. Sometimes that queue was pretty long though! I have photos of the food on the Pixelkinickr Flickr feed (try to say *that* after a beer or two)

Speaking of which, the parties were great fun, and as is typical of this industry, everyone was friendly and open. The second day saw a fewer notes due to aforementioned parties – but it was still a wonderful day.

I was so excited to be able to attend my first Web Directions South conference in sunny Sydney, Australia.

This is shaping up to be my “Year of Web Conferences” – 12 months and four wonderful opportunities. WebDU was just fantastic – and now I’m in my new job I have a great deal of focus as to what to attend at upcoming events. My seat seemed firmly planted in the Business track of this year’s Web Directions – past years might have seen me in Design and Development – but that’s the nature of this industry, isn’t it? change and changing to suit the needs of the moment.

These are some of my notes from the sessions I attended – I’ll add links to podcasts and video where I can to help pad out the holes and give a lot more context.

I had the incredible opportunity to attend WebDU09. The event was just amazing and interesting. I gained so much from the Flash and Flex talks – and wish I’d had been able to attend other talks as well – but there’s only so much a middle-aged Flasher can manage.

Thank you to all the people who made it possible for me to attend – I appreciated it very much.

PS: Note taking and live-blogging is not easy – as you will see. Hopefully the links to podcasts and videos will help more than my snippets of text.