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I’ve been unable to locate the podcasts that they claim will be available soon. Admittedly, I haven’t looked very hard. It’s possible they have not been posted yet.

Bryan Veloso has a podcast of March 11, 2006 at SXSWi. I haven’t listened yet, but I’m guessing it includes only the panels he attended.

I ended up attending “How to be a Web Design Superhero” with panelists Andy “Buddman” Budd and Andy “Malarky” Clark. This was a humorous look at all the attributes necessary to be a superhero…translated to web design terminology. I had no idea Andy Clarke was such an entertaining guy. Included in the list of “superpowers” necessary to be a web design superhero are:

• super speed - the ability to get jobs done quickly
• empathy - the ability to understand a clients needs
• telepathy - the ability to understand what the client is not telling you
• elasticity - (I didn’t catch what this was)

If I were to take a guess at what my superpowers are I’d have to say:

• organization - the ability to take complex or chaotic things and put them in order
• anticipation - the ability to predict the outcome of a current course

The most useful panel I have attended so far was “How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting”. Both Jeremy Keith and Aaron Gustafson were great. The content was well prepared, there was a practical overview of the DOM, and useful code examples. I’ll probably have to buy Jeremy’s book when I return home. It’s been on my Amazon wish list for a while…but it looks like no one is going to “hook me up”.

I’ve had several requests for my notes from the “How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting” panel. Unfortunately, I neglected to take notes on this panel. However, Stuart Colville has blogged his complete notes/transcription.

I haven’t finalized which seminar’s I’m attending tomorrow…must sleep now.