JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Thanks to Techpodcasts.com for posting the mp3 from my talk on Saturday at Gnomedex 5.0 titled The Masks We Make: Blogging As Social Tool.
Click here to listen!

I am hoping that the video will be posted also, since my talk is dependent on visuals. Some sentences lose significance without the slide to see.

But I hope that [...]

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Being a speaker and being a mom (with my kids present) at a conference makes it a different experience. I missed parts of some sessions and wish I had been better able to give my full attention to some speakers. However, I was able to catch a few quotes and highlights, which I’ll post here, [...]

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How do I say thank you to everyone? I’m overwhelmed…

Speaking at Gnomedex on Saturday was an amazing experience. I’m grateful to Chris and Ponzi for inviting, promoting and believing in me. They also bent over backwards to take care of our kids and make sure they were comfortable. Wow! Thanks for the excellent conference [...]

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I’ll write more later about the conference itself, but for now I wanted to post a link to the bibliography for my talk titled Blogging as Social Tool. I’ve assembled a list in del.icio.us/julie_leung using the tag gnomedexquotejleung. Posts that I explicitly quote in my talk can be found in this category. For a look [...]

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You know when you start having nightmares about something that it must have slipped inside your subconscious. Last week I dreamed it was time for me to talk at Gnomedex but I had lost my paper notes and didn’t have my slides either. Those who have seen my talk know it is dependent on the [...]

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Recently I’ve read some wonderful posts, scribbling notes to myself, hoping I’ll have time to publish links later. Maureen’s description of her family dinners was one I treasured. In this piece she tells what happens at Sundays in their home, and wonders what it will be like after her parents, Mike and Carol Gormley, are [...]

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lavender harvested to dry in a paper bag

papier mache hippo, prior to painting

tiger lilies blooming in the yard

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The other day, as I was considering which shoes to wear on stage this weekend and how I walk in them, words someone else had said to me years ago returned to my mind. In elementary school, I received an award in a competition. I was not expecting the large red ribbon or any ribbon [...]

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Ben Hammersley’s slides from reboot on Etiquette and the singularity resounded with me. I need a new etiquette. Thank you Ben! [I'm just listening to the audio as I polish this draft.]

David Weinberger’s post No, I’m not keeping up with your blog had the same effect when I read it earlier this week.

In [...]

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