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WordCamp Vegas: Make stuff people want

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I spent this weekend at WordCamp Las Vegas with several fellow Automatticians and WordPress contributors. I gave a talk and tried to take a fun approach: prepare lots of little topics and make the presentation interactive so we could jump around as needed. Everything was focused on experimentation, data analysis, and learning from customers, with the goal of making stuff people want — a phrase I unabashedly borrowed from Y Combinator. Given the unusual format of the talk, I’m not sure the slides are particularly useful. We didn’t go through nearly all of them, and they weren’t used in any particular order. That said, here they are.

TEDxSOMA

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I talked about interactivity and data at TEDxSOMA about a month ago. TEDx is a local version of TED and there are TEDx events being organized all over the world. Great work by the team at Parisoma putting this one together. Sadly, like nearly every restaurant in the world, they misspelled my name on this video.

BBC Interview

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I did an interview with the BBC to talk about Justin.tv’s place in the world of media, how we deal with piracy and what’s next for us. They did some creative editing to cut off and combine some of my answers, but nothing too bad. It was pretty fun, although I hate hearing my voice. It ran on a BBC radio show called Live 5 (I think). You can play the audio below.