DCamp - an unconference on user experience, usability and design

If you are interested in the fields of user experience, usability and design, and you'll be in and around the Bay Area on May 12-13, you should swing by DCamp. It promises to be fun, and will be the first barcamp focused on user experience. What is a barcamp? A barcamp is an unconference! What is an unconference? An unconference has no official pre-defined program. The event is fluid and evolves depending on attendees' interests. Expect lots of talk/discussion/debate/bickering on UX methods, design, open source, web2.0 and much much more. I hope to slip in a talk somewhere too. Come and heckle me.

You can find out more via:

• The unconference's un-un-official wiki
• Rashmi's blog (she's a BarCamp veteran - I haven't been before, but she promises it'll be fun)
• Also - here's a link to DCamp at upcoming.org

2 great Bay Area internet cafes

Firstly, Neote in Palo Alto (map). The twist is its a tea place. Brits rejoice. No tea bags too. Very minimal. Perfect to escape the babystrollers on University Ave.
Secondly, Papa Toby’s Cafe Revolution in the Mission (map). Been around forever, but I just discovered their fabulous wifi last weekend.  Art on the walls, people with dreads, pretty much the diammetric opposite of Neote.

Both recommended.