Speakers

geeks have lead the most recent evolution of our society and some do it better than others. i’ve been incredibly curious about how geek praxis outside of a professional setting has contributed to geek success and would like to share a few ways i’ve found that geeks harness their obesssions and obsessive natures for fun [...]

About Dominic Holden Dominic is news editor of The Stranger, an alt-weekly newspaper in Seattle. He second-guesses freeway projects. Likes trout.

Why: With the advent of food-focused social media and celebrity chef bloggers—not to mention understaffed magazines—food photography is everywhere. Everybody is taking photos of what they eat and very few are doing it right. What: I would like to identify the four major enemies of good food porn and offer simple solutions on how to [...]

All of us have been conditioned from birth by our families, our friends, and marketers to want (or not want) certain things. And while I’m a big fan of Facebook, I have this theory that it reinforces social conditioning in some pretty insidious ways. In this talk, I’ll explain how I used Facebook’s self-serve advertising [...]