Obligatory next year post

Well, that’s nearly 2005 over and done with. Quite an eventful year all told and I couldn’t let it end without the obligatory next year post .

So without further ado, this year various things happened to me:

• @media was great. Met lots of nice people and had a blast. Roll on next year.
• I moved jobs
• I actually started blogging. I redesigned the site around that goal and now I’m hooked. Oh well.
• The Reboot was a massive success. It got me to redo my site properly, got me all of ten minutes of minor fame and I’m still on the front page. Thanks to everyone.

Next year my crystal ball predicts:

• The Carson Workshops Summit will be huge.
• I’ll find something more specific to write about rather than jumping around all the time.
• Newcastle New Media will kick into action with some real world meetups and then who knows?

On less of a self centred trip:

• Elastic and Liquid design will be essential.
• Yahoo Vs Google will really hot up. With more buying and innovating that you can shake a stick at.
• Intel powered Apples will be launch to a crazy ipod fueled public. Who still wont buy them. They will however by the machine of choice for the discerning conference attending web design geek next year.
• Some crazy, web 2.0, buzzword compliant CMS/Blogging software will hit the streets causing a ruckus. Textpattern will still be great.
• Some cools stuff has to come out of Alexa opening up their archive via web services

All in all, I’m looking forward to next year for a range of reasons including the above. Hope to see (or meet) all of you (again) over the coming year.