Pat’s Point of View

Last week I attended the Web Essentials 2005 conference (WE05) in Sydney, and I must say I really enjoyed it.

It impressed and inspired me to see designers, geeks, suits and a whole bunch of other web people coming together in the name of web standards, with a desire and enthusiasm to learn how to do things properly!

I felt good about the industry that I work in, and started genuinely looking forward to the future. Working in ad agencies for the past few years had really eroded that feeling in me. I feel better now.

It was great to hear such entertaining and motivating presentations by people such as Jeffery Veen, Douglas Bowman, Tantek �elik and Molly Holzschlag. I was proud to be a “web designer”…and you don’t often get that! :)

Other great stuff was presented by Eric Meyer, Kelly Goto (finally bought her book) and Derek Featherstone. (Is it just me or are all these guys from the US? hmmm)

I can’t wait to force colleagues and “those that still need to be converted” to listen to the podcasts. So many people working in the web have no idea about or interest in new exciting stuff such as Technorati, Microformats and Flickr.

Anyway, back to the task of getting a job.

P

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