{"id":391,"date":"2007-05-06T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/species-of-speakers\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T15:41:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T22:41:58","slug":"species-of-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/species-of-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Species of speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I prepare my talk for next week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/xtech2007.org\">Xtech<\/a> in Paris, frantically trying to read the books that got delivered too late, I wonder about the people who do the conference circuit and have to give talks every other week. I think, from what I&#8217;ve seen and heard, that there are 2 types of speakers who work very differently on their talks:<\/p>\n<p>1. The gardener: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackdiary.com\">Matt<\/a> is a good example of someone who starts off talking about a subject on a smaller scale and slowly adjusts it and adds content as time goes by.<\/p>\n<p>2. The improviser: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/sterling\/\">Bruce Sterling<\/a> would be the prime example here of someone who masters their material extremely well.  He flavors it differently picking up some things for a certain type of audience and shaping it to make it relevant to them. I&#8217;ve seen him speak twice and seen a number of videos of his talks and it&#8217;s always quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p>So there, this is my first proper conference talk, and I am quite nervous, especially since i&#8217;m addressing the main subject of Ubicomp in a very different way. Hopefully I&#8217;ll try to string together the things that interest me the most about ubiquitous computing, the internet as a product designer and what this means for our cultural perception of the material world. More on that very soon I promise : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I prepare my talk for next week&#8217;s Xtech in Paris, frantically trying to read the books that got delivered too late, I wonder about the people who do the conference circuit and have to give talks every other week. I think, from what I&#8217;ve seen and heard, that there are 2 types of speakers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/species-of-speakers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Species of speakers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-6j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}