{"id":183,"date":"2008-05-13T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-05-13T07:07:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T23:07:20","slug":"interesting-south-sydney-conference-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Interesting South – Sydney Conference highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night in Sydney I presented at Interesting South<\/a>. Modelled on the event of a similar name in London, it was, as the name suggests, damn interesting.<\/p>\n

The organisers aimed to capture the feeling of jumping from blog to blog – but in a face-to-face context. They succeeded.<\/p>\n

I cried twice – once when listening to Zoe Horton – a genetic counseller – talking about a baby called Ruby being born with an incurable genetic disorder, and the tale of her short three month life.<\/p>\n

The second time was for polar opposite reasons when listening to the tale of the Viral Waistcoat<\/a>. There was a degree of unitentional hilarity when the Powerpoint failed to perform, but in the context I actualy thought this was intentional. Crying with laughter was the best way to mark the end of the evening.<\/p>\n

The highlights? Tales of diving with humpback whales in Tonga (now on my to-do-in-the-very-near-future list), Tim Noonan<\/a> celebrating being different (he has a huge potential as a stand-up comedian) and Michael Lister on how to design bus routes.<\/p>\n

The videos should be online soon linked from the site, and if you were one of the many who could not get into the soldout event, I’d recommend a look.<\/p>\n

I’m already marking next years event in my diary – it’s worth catching a plane for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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