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Speakers

Geek Generation – Lauren Bricker @brickware

November 30, 2009
Lauren Bricker

Don’t call Lauren Bricker a teacher, she’s more of a “Geek Generator.” For the last two years she’s been teaching computer science at a local private high school. It’s incredibly interesting, rewarding, and yes, a lot of work.
Lauren talks about her experiences teaching CS to high school kids and tells us how we [...]

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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Counterfactuals – Daniel Westreich

November 30, 2009
Daniel Westreich

When looking at data regarding Web site user behavior or in Daniel Westreich’s case, epidemiology, we have to be remember that correlation does not imply causation. That is, just because two events were observed close together in time, it is false to assume that one caused the other. Causal inference is hard.
With great [...]

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Life’s Too Short To Eat Bad Food – Vanessa Fox

November 30, 2009
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Between working long hours, working on geek side projects (and at least in my case, raising kids), putting together a dinner party seems like a lot of work.
Coming from someone who spends more time on the road than in her house, search engine optimization expert, Vanessa Fox gives us her tips on throwing [...]

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Creating Communal Creative Space – Willow Brugh

November 29, 2009
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The experience of building a maker space from scratch is certainly a project, Willow Brugh talks about her experience in doing so, what advice others have shared with her, and what spaces like this (Hackerbot, Saturday House are already available in Seattle.

About Willow Brugh
You can find Willow on her blog, on Twitter @willowbl00. [...]

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I Wish I Was Taller – Elan Lee

November 24, 2009
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Software and hardware developers spend a lot of time combing through the flaws and defects that their products have. But what about their own flaws and defects? Is it as simple as filing a bug?
Elan Lee had always wanted to be taller. Here’s his story of the attempts to fix his [...]

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Lies to Ignore – Jessica Hagy

November 12, 2009

With her familiar charts, graphs, diagrams and deadpan humor, Jessica Hagy indexes Ignite Seattle.

About Jessica Hagy
A recent transplant from Columbus, Ohio, Jessica Hagy writes (and draws) the popular blog, Indexed. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the BBC Magazine and has won numerous awards. A collection of Indexed was [...]

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Addiction! Staying afloat in the stream – Mónica Guzmán

November 10, 2009
Mónica Guzmán

Glued to email, your RSS reader or Twitter? Has your hand grown by 133 grams — the approximate weight of an iPhone? The Web is a stream, and it’s easy to drown. Mónica Guzmán returns to the Ignite stage to offer tips, tricks and cautionary tales to guide you through the perils of an [...]

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Ignite Seattle 8 Speakers

November 9, 2009

We’ve got a great line up for our next event, held once again at the King Cat Theatre on December 1st at 7pm. Here is the list of speakers for Ignite Seattle 8 (in no particular order). We look forward to seeing you there.

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What Makes the Greenest Cab? – Gregory Heller

November 2, 2009
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Green transportation is all the rage these days, especially hybrid and electric vehicles. Popular wisdom may lead some, including civic leaders and politicians to believe that the greenest vehicle is a hybrid. NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has been fighting to “Green” the Yellow Cab fleet in that city by forcing all new cabs to [...]

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60 Minutes in Whale (and How I Learned to Use a Machete!) – Mandy Sorensen

October 29, 2009
Mandy Sorenson

Ever wondered what to do with a half-alive beached whale on a remote island in the Pacific? Veterinarian Mandy Sorenson recounts her experience of dealing with this very problem while visiting the Pacific island of Rarotonga in 2006.
After a remarkable and significant attempt to keep a beached juvenile beak nosed whale alive, Mandy was [...]

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How I Learned to Appreciate Dance Being Married to a Ballerina – Todd Sawicki

October 28, 2009
Todd Sawicki

At past Ignites, we’ve learned that being married to a geek or startup jock can be rough and finding that geek girl can be tough but rarely, do we hear the geek’s side of the story.
Todd Sawicki takes us on a trip into his married life and shares what he has learned being married to [...]

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Confessions of an Ignite Speaker

October 23, 2009

Scott Berkun, an Ignite Seattle regular and fantastic public speaker has a new book coming out out on public speaking, “Confessions of a Public Speaker.” The book will be on bookshelves on November 6th, 2009 but in the mean time, here’s a PDF preview and a trailer he put together for it.

Full disclosure: I [...]

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Where Goldfish Come From – Lee LeFever

October 22, 2009
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Everyone knows goldfish and koi, but very few have ever thought about where they come from – how they are bred, raised, transported, etc. Lee LeFever knows these things like the back of his hand.
Since 1965, the LeFever family in North Carolina has owned and operated one of the largest fish hatcheries in the [...]

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Geeking out aero-style for a hundred bucks – Dan Shapiro

October 20, 2009
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When Dan Shapiro was a kid, radio control flight meant spending thousands of dollars to put what was essentially a slightly aerodynamicized lawnmower in the air. You spent thousands on engines and electronics and balsa, months building your plane, crashed it your first flight out, and then repeated.
Over and over, and over [...]

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Scotto Moore’s Digital Fairy Tale, CPU

October 8, 2009

Ignite Seattle Artist-in-Residence, Scotto Moore’s gives us his latest work, “CPU” which he describes as “a cautionary tale about the dangers of modern neural malware.” Updating those virus definitions will never feel quite the same.

About Scotto Moore
Scotto Moore is a writer, director and technologist. You can find him at Scotto.org. His next [...]

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Principles of Economics Translated – Yoram Bauman, Ph.D.

September 30, 2009
Yoram Bauman

Yoram Bauman, a standup economist, deconstructs Greg Mankiw’s 10 Principles of Economics. In short order Yoram explains away tradeoffs, incentives, margins and markets. They become more common concepts of choices, people, governments, and stupidity (and limits of stupidity).
Greg Mankiw clearly doesn’t take this too personally, he blogged about Yoram twice, and by his own estimation, [...]

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