Just a reminder that we are throwing another Thingamajiggr party to celebrate the innovative tech community in the Pacific Northwest. It will combine great speakers, innovative technology, geek inspired art, VJs, DJs, bar, and creative technologists. The second Thingamajiggr is happening in Seattle the evening of June 13th, 7:30pm - 1am. It will be held at the 911 Media Arts Center in South Lake Union. All proceeds will go to benefit the 911 Media Arts Center. It will be co-hosted by Waggle Labs and O’Reilly Radar. Tickets can be purchased for $10 presale, 15$ at door, 21+ only. Details on the program are below.

We’ve just added a silk screening workshop so bring a shirt or jacket to decorate while you are there. It’ll be in the same room that you get your free LED Throwie.

Speakers

(8:00pm - 9:30pm):
After opening up with some Ignite talks we’ll hear from

John Mendina - Do you drive while talking on a cell phone or read e-mail while talking on the phone? Come hear Dr. John Medina, author of “Brain Rules,” a developmental molecular biologist, explain why the brain can’t multitask. He is an affiliate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is also the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University. Visit www.brainrules.net, see Dr. Medina’s news coverage or watch his Tech Talk at Google.

Dan Savage is a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist and author of several books. He’s taken the local weekly The Stranger to a national level, slogged his way onto the net, and has been blamed for destroying podcasting. Dan will be telling us where he thinks the publishing industry is going wrong.

Party

(9:30pm - 1:00pm):
Entertainment:

• DJ Sweet Chris Bell and DJ? Whatever.
• Find your matches and nemeses with Pathable (must purchase ticket in advance).
• VJ binarymillenium and visual performance by Joseph Gray.
• Chumby video messages powered by Eyejot.
• Special Whiskey Bar Sponsored by Ontela.

Workshops: Join a workshop!

• LED Throwies by the Dorkbot Overlords
• Knitting 2.0: How “hi-tech meets hand-spun” is changing the face of this traditional craft, by Beth Goza. Learn more.
• New: Silk Screening for the Masses - Bergen McMurray of Deviant:Design will be on-hand to guide you through the process.

Art:

• OBViouS video sculpture, a five-artist show curated by 911 Media Arts Center Affiliate Curator Steven Vroom
• Power Tool Races Installation and Conversation Piece by Hazardfactory
• The Ionization Clock — where every passing second is another step into obsolescence — by Simon Winder

It’s a Seattle Tech Community Weekend!
Technophiles, this the weekend for you. Be sure to check out our friends, including:

• nPost & Lunch 2.0 Happy Hour Pub Crawl, for techies and startups, Fri 6pm - 8pm in Pioneer Square;
• BarCamp Seattle, an ad hoc unconference in the Adobe Conference Center (801 N 43rd), on Sat 10am-5pm and Sun 10am-1pm;
• SilverlightDevCamp, a community within a community at both Thingamajiggr and BarCamp Seattle

Sponsored by Voyager Capital, Identity Mine, Pathable, and O’Reilly Radar.

8:00PM - First Set of Talks

1. Ellen Kowalczyk - Living with (and not killing) the entrepreneur in your lifeCreative ways on managing money, time, personal space and the emotional ups and downs of living with a startup junkie.
2. Noah Iliinsky - Generation of Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of SpaghettiA system for creating good diagrams, starting with perception and cognition, and ending by advising key choice points.
3. Jeff Barr - How to be a Technology EvangelistJeff will talk about the theory and practice of technology evangelism - what it is and how it is done.
4. Adam Philipp - How to Roll Your Own Patent ApplicationGot an Idea? Is it new? Is it useful? Is it obvious? Yes, Yes, No! Patent it! Or at least get the provisional filed.
5. Vj Vijai- Hacking the Technical Interview Use NLP, Hypnosis and other Jedi Mind tricks to land the exact job that you want
6. Dick Carlson - Bad Powerpoint! Bad! Bad! Do your Powerpoint presentations suck? Yes, they do. Admit it. Maybe we can fix it, just a little.
7. Helen Cook - The most beautiful game in the worldThe first half of this talk will teach you how to play the most beautiful game in the world: go.
8. Sarah Schacht - Run the Government: A Primer for Online Citizens Web 2.0 has been around for a few years. US democracy-over 200. On/offline best practices & tools for citizen activism.
9. Ramez Naam - Bottoms Up - Putting Employees, Information, and Customers In Charge of Business What if businesses were market democracies? Would they be more effective? More conscientious? How do we make it so?

BREAK

9:15PM - Second Set of Talks

1. Alex Steffen - World Changing
2. Monica Guzman - How to be an awesome news story commenterA few tips on how you can use news story comment boards to improve local journalism and help reporters help you.
3. Ryan McMinn - A pseudoscience guide to geek datingHow the things you know and love like numbers, stats, charts & obsessive tendencies can actually help your dating life.
4. todd sawicki - History of Online AdvertisingFrom the 1st banner ad to where spam came from to the rise of the dreaded pop - its all explained so you’ll who to blame
5. Justin Martenstein - The Six Hour StartupIs it possible to take a startup from idea to implementation in a Saturday afternoon?
6. Josh Kopel - Fun without function Creative adults love to play. At MakePhilly we are working on some simple rules that give them the excuse they need.
7. Jordan Andersen - Opinion SystemsOnline debate, why our “Information Systems” are poor at organizing opinion, and some ideas achieving consensus on-line
8. Matt May - Accessibility Helps You From curb cuts to phone trees, accessible tech makes our lives easier; Why to apply accessibility to the work we do.
9. Heather Ralph - Hacking elections: Getting your favorite politicians elected (legally)I will describe some of the most effective ways to get people elected, from doorbelling to YouTube videos.

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1. Noah Iliinsky - Generation of Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of SpaghettiA system for creating good diagrams, starting with perception and cognition, and ending by advising key choice points.
2. Ellen Kowalczyk - Living with (and not killing) the entrepreneur in your lifeCreative ways on managing money, time, personal space and the emotional ups and downs of living with a startup junkie.
3. Sarah Schacht Run the Government: A Primer for Online Citizens Web 2.0 has been around for a few years. US democracy-over 200. On/offline best practices & tools for citizen activism.
4. todd sawicki - History of Online AdvertisingFrom the 1st banner ad to where spam came from to the rise of the dreaded pop - its all explained so you’ll who to blame
5. Adam Philipp - How to Roll Your Own Patent ApplicationGot an Idea? Is it new? Is it useful? Is it obvious? Yes, Yes, No! Patent it! Or at least get the provisional filed.
6. Vj Vijai- Hacking the Technical Interview Use NLP, Hypnosis and other Jedi Mind tricks to land the exact job that you want
7. Jeff Barr - How to be a Technology EvangelistJeff will talk about the theory and practice of technology evangelism - what it is and how it is done.
8. Ramez Naam - Bottoms Up - Putting Employees, Information, and Customers In Charge of Business What if businesses were market democracies? Would they be more effective? More conscientious? How do we make it so?
9. Ryan McMinn - A pseudoscience guide to geek datingHow the things you know and love like numbers, stats, charts & obsessive tendencies can actually help your dating life.
10. Monica Guzman - How to be an awesome news story commenterA few tips on how you can use news story comment boards to improve local journalism and help reporters help you.
11. Helen Cook - The most beautiful game in the worldThe first half of this talk will teach you how to play the most beautiful game in the world: go.
12. Justin Martenstein - The Six Hour StartupIs it possible to take a startup from idea to implementation in a Saturday afternoon?

On the 19th we are going to have 16 Ask Later talks. These talks will each be 5 minutes long with 20 slides and only 15 seconds a slide. Anyone who did not speak at the last Ignite is welcome to speak. Topics should fall in the realm of web 2.0 technology, entrepreneurship, life hacks, or something else that you think a room full of internet junkies will appreciate. Stories and lessons work better than product demos. Submit your talk by 2/10 (talks are selected on a rolling basis; you’re more likely to get in if you beat the rush that comes at the end). RSVP at Upcoming.

Evening schedule:

· 7:30, doors open

· 8:00-9:30ish, Opening presentations

John Kao, renown author and innovation expert, will kick off the evening with a presentation on the topic of his new book, Innovation Nation: How America is Losing its Innovation Edge, Why it Matters, and What We Can Do to Get it Back. See interview on Colbert Report and book review at: http://oz.deichman.net/2007/10/review-john-kaos-innovation-nation.html .

We will then have a few short presentations from local tech innovators in the style of Ignite, followed by Pablos and 3ric’s hacker magic show.

· 9:30 Start Mobile Team Werewolf

We decided, in honor of the werewolf craze that has consumed the tech scene, to create a mobile team werewolf game, party version! While chatting with friends and drinking martinis you will be hunting for werewolves. Bring your cell phone, it will be your game console. Be sure to show up before 9:30 if you want to play.

· 9:30pm – 2:00am, party with DJs and miscellaneous hackery/art

Amidst the bloodbath of villagers and werewolves you will enjoy the music (be sure to check out DJ Ludington’s Live PA setup), video projections of wireless infrared cameras, tesla coils, iron trees, and of course, the bar. You may also choose to experience Josh Lind’s subversive radio transmitter/antennae DJ action using his tub of radios.

Venue and dress:

The party is located in a raw warehouse space that was transformed into a 1920s style “speakeasy” for private events. In honor of both the venue and the tech scene, we suggest you dress to impress for the swank 2020s.

Where will the proceeds go?

We wanted to let you decide which tech non-profit we should send our proceeds to, so you will be voting on Friday.

How else can you participate?

If you have some tech/art/hackery you would like to bring, let us know. It’s never too late! We will be setting up Thursday and Friday, and taking down Saturday, if you would like to help. Email party@thingamajiggr.com.

360|Flex was the first all Flex/Apollo themed conference. Our inaugural conference in San Jose was a sell-out success. No doubt due to Adobe’s Flex Evangelist, Ted Patrick, helping to rally the community. This conference takes you into the nitty-gritty of Flex development. If you’re serious about Flex, then you need to attend this conference.

360|Flex is a community driven event. The sole purpose of the show is to bring the best of the Flex community together in one place to share war stories from the trenches and to allow the experts to share their deep technical knowledge to a large group. Another benefit is finally being able to put a face, voice and personality onto the bloggers, flexcoders and article writers that you’ve come to depend on.

Picnik, the awesome online photo-editor, is giving a way one pass to 360 Flex. The first Flex Developer to mail Picnik founder Mike Harringon gets it. Use mike at picnik dotcom.

We go on at 11:30. We’ll see the following speakers again:

Make Art Not Content
Scotto Moore

Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!
Dave McClure

Stop Yelling, Start Weaving
Deborah Schultz

Is 2008 the year the “Third Screen” takes center stage?
Beth Goza

Venture Capital Term Sheets
Leo Dirac

An embarrassment of riches - the story of Noonhat
Brian Dorsey

LIFE: if you’re bored, you’re doing it wrong
Elan Lee

I’d like to thank all the attendees, volunteers, the CHAC, the people who promoted the event, and the speakers. It was an amazing event and it couldn’t have happened without you all.

As promised here are some of the links mentioned in presentations last night:

Noonhat - Changing the world through lunch

VC Term Sheets - Leo Dirac has put up his slides, but has judged that the spreadsheets aren’t ready to be shared yet. We’ll post them here when they are.

Jobs - in case you were interested both Ontela and Mifos are hiring.

Art Not Content - Before Scotto (in pic) started pondering the artist merits of LOLCats, he made a two season video series entitled “Cherub: The Vampire with Bunny Slippers“. I helped, but don’t hold that against it; it really is funny — especially if you are familiar with the Buffyverse.

Werewolf Rules - Here you go.

Thanks again!

(Photo credit: Stewtopia, stay-at-home-blogger)