Kathy Sierra on Feeling Better is Better [video].

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Kathy Sierra kicks ass! in all her presentation and questions.

a longer version of Kathy Sierra's presentation (from 2007) about "Kicking Ass" and "Passionate users":

http://video.sxsw.com/2007/mp4/kathysierra_lo.mp4

Is there something wrong with that link? It is only two minutes long for me.

Weak, obvious presentation.

Six minutes long, first 45 seconds of which wastes you time with saying how great their "speedy presentations are. (what's wrong with this picture?)

Agreed on the intro: Does TED have 5 minutes of intro discussing TED before each talk? No, because that would suck.

Yes, and it does suck. "Every year millions of people who are greater than you get together in secret to discuss secret awesome things which you aren't good enough to know about. This has never been shared before now. These are the TED talks. Sponsored by BMW and REALLY SCREECHY LOUD MUSIC".

It's a quick summary of her discontinued blog (1), and, even though it's obvious in hindsight, it was fresh when it was first published and these principles are still ignored by a lot of companies. Go read it for a more exhaustive read.

The blog was discontinued because of death threats proffered against her, I'm glad she's still preaching the same message :-).

1. Creating Passionate Users (http://headrush.typepad.com/ )

she received death threats for preaching how to create passionate users? that's....ironic.

I haven't watched the video but her stuff is 90% fluff. "But she is a [good-looking] woman who writes programming books!" is always the implied disclaimer, but sorry, that does not make the books any less dumb, condescending or speculative.

Also, she's been milking those "death treats" for all they could take (who HASN'T gotten anonymous death threats on the internet).

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