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Continued from previous page. This is an archive of events past. Contents may have shifted during handling. External sites referenced may have moved or disappeared.

August 2001

New York Public Library
Mid–Manhattan Library, NYC
455 Fifth Avenue (corner of 40th Street)
28 August 2001
11 am
The Computer Page Program in The Branch Libraries
Private address to students who work part-time after school, assisting the public with the NYPL’s computers, on the benefits of furthering their educations, working with computers, etc. 
Webvisions
7 August 2001
5:30 pm
NW Cultural Center, 17th and NW Everett
Portland, Oregon
Sponsored by Multimedia Developers Group
Keynote Address: Taking Your Talent to the Web
Panel Discussion
With: Gabe Kean, Molly Sokolow, Geoff Hiller, and Heather Irwin
Advances in user knowledge and acceptance, together with emerging standards like CSS and XML (and technologies like Flash) are shaping the web into an increasingly sophisticated and profound medium—and making development far more complex. How can you best prepare to embrace the coming web? Zeldman and a panel of experts will explore the medium’s evolution and future. 

July 2001

Web Design World, Seattle
30 July–3 August
The Westin Seattle
1900 5th Ave
Seattle, Washington
Reservations: 206-728-1000 or 1-800-937-8461
CSS in the Real World
Seminar
31 July 2pm
Inching Toward Web Standards
Panel with Tim Bray & Jeffrey Veen
31 July 4:30pm
Digitally Incorrect
Panel
31 July 8pm
Ask the Experts
Panel
3 August 3:15pm
Deconstructing ... You
Panel with Jim Heid and Kelly Goto
3 August 4:30pm  
Flash Forward 2001 NYC
Flash Forward Author Event
4:45pm–6:15pm, 12 July 2001
“Meet the Author” at New Riders exhibitor booth
1–2 pm, 12 July 2001
New York City, NY 
The Design Conference, Los Alamos, NM
Keynote Address
10 July 2001
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Keynote Address 

May 2001

New York Public Library, New York
29 May 2001, 1 p.m.
Private Address
New York Public Library
Online Division
Science, Industry and Business Library
34th & Madison 
New York Public Library, New York
23 May 2001, 2 p.m.
Private Address
New York Public Library
Mid–Manhattan Library
40th & 5th  
Razorfish Steel Table, New York
11 May 2001, 1 p.m.
Private Address
32 Mercer, Soho, NYC
Writeup: Inhaling Ghosts Exhaling Memories 
New York Public Library, New York
8 May 2001, 1 p.m.
Private Address
New York Public Library
Online Division
Science, Industry and Business Library
34th & Madison 
United Digital Artists Edgewise 01, New York
CONFERENCE CANCELLED
4 May 2001
Puck Building, NYC
Web Survivor on Technology Island
The sites we build are working today, but will they keep working on tomorrow's web? “Join leading web architects, browser experts, and Internet gurus as they gaze into the Web's standards–compliant crystal ball, and see technologies like CSS, XML and XHTML facilitating true separation of style from content.”
Panel discussion on changing web technologies, with: Eric Costello, Eric Meyer, and Jeffrey Veen.

March 2001

Note: Scheduled appearances in Amsterdam and London have been postponed. Bummer, we know. 

New York Public Library, New York
19 March 2001, 10 a.m.
Private Address
New York Public Library
Online Division
Science, Industry and Business Library
34th & Madison 
SXSW Interactive Festival, Austin Texas
9–14 March 2001
Friday 9 March
Fly to Texas.
Saturday 10 March
Music, parties, social embarrassments.
Sunday 11 March
11a–12:30p: Designing for the Future Web with Jeffrey Veen, Denise Burton, Amit Asaravala, and Janice Crotty–Frasier.
2p: Book Signing with Jeffrey Veen.
Monday 12 March
12:30p–1:30p: 20x2— 20 speaker marathon, two minutes each. We'll be performing our famous naked web monologue, adapted from the complete works of Strindberg.
1:30p–3p: Pulp Fiction—Getting Published, with Pableaux Johnson, Michael Nolan, Jeffrey Veen, Derek Powazek, and Steven Champeon.
3:30p: Book Signing with Derek Powazek.
Tuesday 13 March
3:30p: Book Signing with Derek Powazek (tentative). Music, parties, social embarrassments.
Wednesday 14 March
Return to NYC.
A complete Panel Grid is available for your pleasure. 
New York Public Library, New York
5 March 2001, 10 a.m.
Private Address
New York Public Library
Online Division
Science, Industry and Business Library
34th & Madison 

February 2001

Web Design 2001, Atlanta, 12–14 February 2001
Keynote Address (“What Do Today’s Designers Need to Know?”), CSS in the Real World, Crossing Divides: Browser and Platform Incompatibility (with Jim Heid and Steven Champeon)  

December 2000

CNET Builder.com, New Orleans, 6–10 December 2000
Keynote Address: Artistry, Accessibility, and Standards: The Good News (Saturday 10 a.m.) [Keynote Address Outline]
Moderator: Meeting the Standards Panel with Dori Smith, Tim Bray, Glenn Davis (Saturday, 1:15 p.m.)
Co–host (with Glenn Davis): Open Mike Night (Thursday, 9:45 p.m.)

::: [Personal Writeup: My Glamorous Life No. 25]
::: [Press Coverage: Pre-conference interview at Builder.com]
::: [Press Coverage: Standard Fare at Macromedia.com] [NOW OFFLINE]
::: [Press Coverage: Everyone’s a Critic at Macromedia.com] [NOW OFFLINE]

November 2000

Vacation: Seal Beach, Ca. 19–29 November

AIGA, Miami, 4 November 2000
Eden Roc Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida
“Beyond the Buttons: Design as Communication”—two hour address on expanding your role as a web designer
::: Follow–up panel with Roger Black, Clement Mok, Maria Guidice (HotStudio.com), Thomas Mueller (Razorfish), Chris Needham (agency.com), Sarah Cowles (Mainsail.com)

PhotoPlus Expo East, New York City, 2–3 November 2000
Keynote Address, with Joshua Davis and Matt Owens, 3 November, 9am, Jacob Javits Center, New York City. Free to the public.
[Writeup]
2 November, “Fear of Style Sheets” seminar, same location).  

September 2000

Thunder Lizard Web Design 2000, Denver 25–27 September, 2000
Keynote Address, plus two seminars (“CSS in the Trenches” and “Crossing Divides: Coping with Browser Incompatibilities”). Marriott City Center, Denver, Colorado  

August 2000

Web DC, Washington, D.C., 9 August
Panelist, “Design for Community,” moderated by Steve Champeon. With: Emma Taylor of Nerve.com, and Brian Platz of A List Apart.
[WRITEUP: My Glamorous Life 2: Love, Death & The Friendly Skies.]

July 2000

Thunder Lizard Web Design World, Seattle 17–19 July, 2000
Seminars: “CSS in the Trenches” and “Crossing Divides: Coping with Browser Incompatibilities”

Populi Grand Opening, Dallas, TX, 7 July, 2000
Spoke at the launch of the Populi curriculum in Web Communication Design.

April 2000

Geek Pride, Boston, April 2000
Zeldman spoke at this conference hosted by the Geek Pride organization. Additional speakers included Rob Malda of Slashdot, who was the main reason so many people attended.
[WRITEUP: God Bless Roger Black: Notes from Geek Pride.]

March 2000

IH Design Days, Stockholm, Sweden, 9–10 March 2000
Zeldman gave a long talk on independent publishing at this Scandanavian web fest. Additonal speakers included Token Nygaard and Michael Schmidt of Kaliber 10000, and Peyo Almqvist of True Designs.

November 1999

PDN–PIX, New York City Digital Imaging & Web Conference, November 1999
Zeldman delivered the keynote lecture at this huge conference held at New York's Javitz Center.

September 1999

Web Design Denver '99, Denver, CO. September 1999
Zeldman delivered the keynote lecture—“Whose Web Is It, Anyway?”—at this four–day conference for web designers and developers. The conference was developed by Thunder Lizard Productions. Additional speakers included Jim Heid, Dori Smith, and Jeff Veen.

October 1998

Fall Internet World, New York City October 1998
Zeldman and George Olsen of The Web Standards Project joined The Open Group (a vendor–neutral, international consortium of more than 200 members organizations) in a forum on web standards.

September 1998

Bilisim Conference, Istanbul, Turkey September 1998
Bilisim, whose name is a crossword from “knowledge” and “communication,” is the area’s largest computer conference, attended by over 100,000 mass media and internet professionals from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
        In a lecture delivered in English, with live Turkish translation via headset, Zeldman discussed issues of web content and design, the The Web Standards Project’s position on standards, and the hazards of browser fragmentation. The lecture was sponsored by the Istanbul daily newspaper Yeniyuzyil. Zeldman hopes to return to Istanbul in 2001.
[WRITEUP: Letter from Istanbul.]

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