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In case you missed it, WebVisions 2005 has 10 mp3s of their proceedings available. Come back later for my thoughts on them. If you’ve given them a listen, what’d you think?

Update 22 Sep 2005: I’ve skimmed through them all and made it most of the way through Peter Merholz’s “Designing for the Sandbox” talk. This is the first time I’ve heard him explain the Sandbox metaphor. I half agree with the metaphor and I half think it’s inappropriate. I agree that the best we can do it provide people with ways to manipulate information in new ways – being open verses being closed. For me, ‘sandbox’ is synonymous with ‘skunkworks’ or ‘lab’. I’m a big proponent of organizations having designated places to explore and experiment. There’s an understood not-ready-for-primetime-ness to these places. That’s where PeterMe’s metaphor falls apart for me.

Overall, all the speakers sound like they were uncomfortable and unprepared. As if they were playing a public-speaking version of musical chairs and this person was unwillingly pushed behind the mic when the music stopped.