I have been using Lanyrd pretty much since it exists (which isn’t that long), and I’m already convinced that it’s the awesomest possible tool for a multiclass speaker/organiser such as me. Therefore I wish to praise Lanyrd, and also make a few feature requests.

If you organise an event, especially a web conference somewhere in Europe, please add it to Lanyrd. It makes finding your event much easier.

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Here are the slides of my FrontTrends presentation. Mostly new material about why we need SMS messages for transferring JSON, web servers over Bluetooth, why we don't need app stores, and other mobile web ideas.

Overal verdict: fun conference! If it runs again in 2011, go there. And they plan an event called Falsy Values, too.

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Last Thursday I blogged about my site’s statistics, and concluded that mentioning a site on Twitter (and possibly other social media) results in a huge upsurge of mobile traffic as a whole, and Safari and Android traffic specifically.

Since StatCounter logs only the last 20,000 page loads on my blog, last week’s hits are being slowly overwritten by new hits. Thus the hits generated by Smashing Magazine’s tweet are disappearing, and a normal usage pattern is re-emerging.

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A week ago I signed up to StatCounter in order to get some statistics about my site’s visitors. The results are interesting, especially the mobile browsers count.

I signed up for a free account in order to test their mobile browser detect, but quickly extended that to a paid subscription for my entire site.

Believe it or not, but I’ve mostly done without statistics in the past ten years, except for a short period in 2008 or so when I used a bad tool that even managed to mess up its own table-based layout. Until last week I had no clue how many people visited my site and with which browsers, but now I’ve rediscovered it’s fun to know.

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Right now I’m in Düsseldorf with Vodafone, testing the 15th mobile WebKit I found: LG WebKit. I’ll head home this afternoon, and after that I have two more trips to go before this year is up.

Next week I’ll be in Warsaw for Front Trends where I will speak about JSON over SMS and other cool mobile opportunities. I will also visit friends there.

As Mathias points out in the comments I'll go to Ghent for a Fronteers meeting on 4 November, but it's travel by train (which to me counts as minor travel), and besides the meeting is completely booked.

Then in the second week of November I’ll head to the UK once more. I will attend Full Frontal on Friday 12th, and it seems likely I’ll be around London or Brighton from Wednesday or so on; maybe even earlier.

That’s it for the year; when I land on Schiphol on Saturday 13th my traveling will be over until at least February or so.

I’ll probably meet some of my readers during either of the conferences.

Over the past few weeks I’ve had essentially the same conversation with Georgi Petrov from Sofia, Bulgaria; Lea Verou from Athens, Greece; and Marco Cedaro from Bologna, Italy.

All three wanted to do something about front-end in their own town, but all three seemed to think there was some kind of black magic involved in getting well-known speakers to your conference or even getting together a few people to talk about geeky stuff.

So it’s time to talk about organising front-end meetings or conferences and how black magic is not necessary.

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Ewan MacLeod is spot on:

It’s important to recognise that whilst most of the Western media reckons Nokia is completely screwed, this is also not the case.

The company continues to ship a million handsets a day (or thereabouts) and each one of those devices contributes a tiny bit of profit along with a heck of a lot of cash throughput that keeps bankers smiling very, very widely.

Believe it or not, folk actually queued for the N8. Just not in San Francisco or London. So it might as well not have happened as far as the West is concerned.

Sadly the reality is that ... well ... perception is reality. It’s 0% reality and 100% perception in the case of Nokia from the point of view of the West.

Last Tuesday I blogged about event delegation on the iPhone and concluded that the click event, contrary to all others, is not delegated upward unless you also give the element the user clicks on an onclick event handler (which may be empty).

Turns out this is not the whole story.

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