One of the high­lights of WE05 for me, was meet­ing Molly Holzschlag.

Us web chicks tend to be a bit few and far between, so meet­ing some­one who has been an inspi­ra­tion to me for so many years — I’ve been aware of her work since at least 1997 — was very excit­ing. In fact, it was one of the main moti­va­tions for me to actu­ally get my butt over to WE05. I think it was Miles who said that every­one who met Molly totally fell in love with her — she’s just that kind of per­son. I totally agree.

Any­way, Molly’s made her pre­sen­ta­tions avail­able online and of course you can down­load the pod­casts from nearly all the ses­sions (check out my nervous-sounding intro to Jeff Veen’s first ses­sion — I didn’t realise how bleedin’ ocker my accent is!).

Molly, it was an hon­our for us to have you doing the keynote, and the nerves you talked about are what sep­a­rates real per­form­ers from bor­ing speak­ers. I learnt from doing half a degree in clas­si­cal per­cus­sion (of all things) that if you step on stage not hav­ing wor­ried about that moment, and don’t get a rush from every­one look­ing at you with all that expec­ta­tion, it’s time to find some­thing else to do. You totally rocked.

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