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AEA11 Seattle: Afterword

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

View from the AI Skybridge

How could anyone write an afterword if there is no foreword/prologue/plot, I don’t know, but I’m about to attempt this wizardry on this ill-kept blog.

What really inspired me to pick up the pen—I mean, open my blog’s WordPress dashboard—isn’t just the fact that I just attended An Event Apart in Seattle, but that this experience was a completely different experience from the last time I attended AEA. It was to be expected; it’s been almost five years since then.

I’m not going to write about what I learned on a technical level (you can see that from A Feed Apart); rather, I wanted to write about something more personal than just devious applications of CSS3 and best practices for content strategy. I want to write about what I experienced emotionally, and what a personal trip this had been for me.
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