From the yearly archives:

2007

Conversations with Artists at McLeods on 8/1

July 31, 2007

Our friends at McLeods have an interesting show happening tomorrow night Conversation with the Artists: Maggie Orth and Joel Kollin Please join us for a conversation with Maggie Orth and Joel Kollin to learn more about their work in our current Interactivity exhibition.Maggie Orth is an artist, technologist, and entrepreneur who creates and invents interactive [...]

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Ignite Talks

July 30, 2007

The next Ignite Seattle is August 8th at the CHAC. The evening will be a combination of Half-Baked Dotcom and Ignite talks. This time we are doing something special and we’re going to have a contest amongst the speakers. Four speakers will get a chance to do their Ignite talks at Gnomedex, Chris Pirillo’s Seattle-based [...]

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More Ignite 4 Talks!

July 24, 2007

The talks keep rolling in. We’ve added three more. Shawn Murphy – Hacking Chocolate Anybody can create interesting and new chocolates with some basic ingredients, imagination and a little technique. Deepak Singh – Small medicine: Nanotechnology and biology The start of the art in the applications of nanotechnology to healthcare and medicine Derek Gaw – [...]

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Half-Baked Dotcom at Ignite Seattle

July 19, 2007

We are trying something new this time around: Half-Baked Dotcom. HBD has become quite popular at various O’Reilly events. Itis going to be hosted by one of its creators, Dave McClure. He’s my Web 2.0 Expo co-chair and happens to be in town for Gnomedex. As he describes it: Half-Baked Dot Com is a participatory [...]

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Submit Talks for Ignite Seattle on 8/8; Speak at Gnomedex!

July 18, 2007

The next Ignite Seattle is August 8th at the CHAC. At the last one we had over 350 people throw hundreds of paper airplanes at a hula-hoop and watch 16 great talks. Watch the videos (from Bryan Zug) to see some excellent speakers talk about things like The Science And Art Of Naming and Tamasheq [...]

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Interactivity @ McLeods

July 4, 2007

Buster McLeod spoke at the first Ignite. In that talk he reference his then-about-to-open tech gallery, McLeods. As I am sure you know, it’s now open. This Friday they are going to have a sweet-sounding art opening. I’ll be there. I hope to see you. Info below. Interactivity Artists working with Technology Technologists working with [...]

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Adobe’s AIR Bus Tour Does an Ignite

June 29, 2007

Adobe is doing a 10-city bus tour to promote their new RIA platform AIR. Adobe evangelist and Seattle local Ryan Stewart is going to throw Ignite the Web! when the bus rolls into Seattle on July 10th. The day will be all about AIR and the evening will be for their Ignite. Sadly, neither Bre [...]

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Date Change: Ignite Seattle on 8/8!

June 29, 2007

The next Ignite Seattle is going to be the evening of August 8th at the CHAC. We’ll start at 6:30PM with a game — probably outside. Beginning at 8:30 we will have 16 Ignite talks. I’ll do a broader announcement next week, but you can submit a talk now.

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NetSquared Event at McLeods Residence

May 31, 2007

Tech non-profit NetSquared is coming to Seattle and has their first event is this coming Tuesday. Here’s some more info on the organization and the first meetup from their blog: My colleague Sarah Schacht of Knowledge As Power and I are co-organizing the kickoff of Seattle’s first Net2 Tuesday. NetSquared is a Tech Soup venture [...]

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Next Ignites: 6/9 & 8/9

May 24, 2007

We have two ignites coming up in Seattle. The first one will be Ignite at Seattle BizJam on 6/9. It’s going to be the opening event for the awesome conference aimed at local, independent business owners. Then on 8/9 we will have our next Ignite Seattle. Save the date! It will be held at the [...]

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Playing Cruel 2 B Kind? Read this.

April 20, 2007

**Quick Tip: If what you read below sounds fun, sign-up ** Dear Cruel 2 B Kind Assassins, This email contains your 3 secret weapons, plus a few killer tips, for your Saturday afternoon game. Read this entire email carefully, or you’ll wind up dead faster than you can say “There’s something’s rotten in the state [...]

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Thanks For Helping at Ignite 3

April 14, 2007

Bre and I would like to thank the following people for their help before, during and after Ignite 3. Thanks to: Matt May – He left the event to get us a projector; we would have been screwed without him. Allegra Searle-LeBel – She ran a camera helped with video setup Ryan Stewart – He [...]

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Ignite Logo

April 13, 2007

We have a logo! We’ve been working on it for a while and we’re pretty happy with the results.

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Ignite in SF on Sunday

April 13, 2007

If you’re in SF this Sunday come by for the first Ignite Expo!. You can see the schedule on the Web 2.0 Expo blog.

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Health Hacks in a Readable Form

April 13, 2007

Candace McNaughton, ND wrote in to provide the hacks from her great talk, Health Hacks- Natural Medicine Quick Fixes, in a list form. Enjoy! Following are the eight health hacks presented at the third Ignite Seattle. Keep in mind that these are meant to be examples of some quick-acting natural approaches rather than representative of [...]

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Behind the Scenes at Ignite 3

April 8, 2007

Want to know what it’s like behind the scenes at Ignite? Paolo Tosolini filmed this great video that documents it. Did you see yourself in it? Thanks Paolo! Paolo also writes a nifty blog on Italy and the new media called Italy From The Inside. The talk videos will be up in the next couple [...]

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