More (or less) original insights from an old blogger
Geek heaven … ShowOff — a keynote/powerpoint alternative that’s a Sinatra web app with slide markup in Markdown and special effects in JavaScript. I’ve got to try this! From Scott Chacon, GitHubber and author of Pro Git. Mentioned during an interview on InfoQ.
One advantage of not being at the ALT-C conference is that I can only attend the keynotes and invited speaker sessions on Eluminate. I therefore have a lot of time to watch the twitter stream and curate the links. Cloudworks has a “cloud” for all the talks at this year’s ALT-C gathering (in Nottingham) and I’ve been busy adding references and links to the cloud for Donald Clark’s keynote — a lecture on the evils of lectures that really got the attendees — present and remote — going!
One question that I always have is why keynote speakers rarely feel the need to provide their slides!
