{"id":412,"date":"2010-02-18T18:16:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:18:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:18:34","slug":"speak-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/speak-the-web","title":{"rendered":"Speak the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gablaxian\/4367233713\/in\/pool-speaktheweb\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2537\/4367233713_5a0f4d0bdf.jpg\" alt=\"The Crowd Listens\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto by @gablaxian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/speaktheweb.org\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/speaktheweb.org\/\">Speak the Web<\/a> came to a close last night in Manchester&#8217;s NoHo bar, with a five strong band of the Setfire crew there to take part. The event were definitely a refreshing change to some of the bigger, more expensive events that Speak the Web is partly a reaction to. Four speakers covered an impressively broad range of stuff &#8211; <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/speaktheweb.org\/manchester\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/speaktheweb.org\/manchester\/\">mobile, seo, html5 apis and Css3<\/a>. The informal nature of the event lent itself to questions from the crowd and a definite lack of the them and us factor sometimes present at conferences. Oh and did I mention it was in a bar?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My favourite quote of the night was probably Andy Clarke&#8217;s gentle ribbing of the Brighton and London focus of many web dev conferences, with him pointing out they are not &#8220;the center of the f**king universe&#8221;. Hopefully with the success of Speak the Web and other events like Barcamp, we might be getting somewhere to shifting that focus.<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit gutted to have to leave right after the event, being a bit over tired and generally a bit of a wuss these days. Nevertheless it was great to be there and I&#8217;m pretty sure that this isn&#8217;t the last we&#8217;ve seen of Speak the Web. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by @gablaxian Speak the Web came to a close last night in Manchester&#8217;s NoHo bar, with a five strong band of the Setfire crew there to take part. The event were definitely a refreshing change to some of the bigger, more expensive events that Speak the Web is partly a reaction to. Four speakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}