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That's right.  OK, thank you all for coming. First, I'm going to show these slides that you've probably seen a couple of times. Come to the Contribution Day tomorrow. And remember to go in and give feedback on the event and the speakers. So welcome to this talk. I realized when I was writing the talk and the title of the talk that it kind of sounds like something you would expect to be a bit, like an enterprise kind of a talk. So this sounds kind of boring to me. And I made a little twist. So this is content-driven e-commerce, a love story. So to those of you who wanted a boring enterprise talk, I'm really sorry. This is going to be the love story into that. Checking if someone is leaving. This is good. So my name is Eric. I work at NIME, the Inkron name, in Norway. And although this is the slide where I brag about myself, I also want to note that this talk is not going to be very technical. And I'm a technical person. So I hope you will be kind to me, even though I'm speaking about something that is not technical. And I'm going to talk partly about some things that comes from an interesting cooperation we had at our company with three master students in media communication and information technology in the University of NIME. They were studying what would make a good web strategy for a brand new webshop. And by brand new, I mean they had a physical store and they wanted to start an online version of their store. So when I'm referring to the research project later in the talk, this is the research project. I will come to that. First, I want to come back to the title, The Love Story, because we're going to follow two young people in their adventures in love. And we will look at this love story specifically at the three scenes of their lives. And it's the aquarium scene. It's the balcony scene and the dramatic ending. Because of this story about content and e-commerce, it's a love story. And it's a classic drama of families and forbidden love. So I want you to meet Romeo. Romeo here, he comes from the content family. It's a family of poets, artists. And their history includes highly praised theater plays, classical novels, enchanting paintings. Their worldview is that of a romantic. They see the beauty in the world and they provide beauty to the people. And I want you to meet Julian. Julian comes from the e-commerce family. They are a merchant family with a long history of buying and selling. Their heritage is long. Their views towards commerce is conservative. They have always done things one way and they see no potential gain from changing their ways. Which brings us to the first scene of this love story, the aquarium scene. And it was really love at first sight. Julian was looking at Romeo. Romeo was looking at Julian and they just knew. And in some way, I think everyone knows content can drive commerce. So let's take a step back and think about the most basic versions of these terms. For example, what is content? Well, Wikipedia defines content as a, and right now I'm just kidding, who here doesn't know what content means? I mean, we're at the content management conference. So let's rather think about what content means in the context of commerce. And in the context of a commerce system built on a content management framework like Vruble, it can, for example, mean the body text of your product. It can mean pictures of your products. But it can also mean a lot of other things. But we're going to start with the first here. So consider the lamp. This is the lamp. This is a screenshot from a client of ours that I manipulated a bit to make a point. And it's a lamp that costs more than 1,200 euros, a really expensive lamp. It has one picture and there's no useful information. Or rather, there's some information there, but the translation is literally, this does not include a cord. So for me as a consumer, I would need to be sort of more convinced about why I would spend that kind of money on the lamp, but here there are really no compelling reasons. And to make the parallel to a physical store, I would go over to this lamp and see the price tag and I would not buy this lamp unless someone working there would come over and explain all of the wonderful features of the lamp. Maybe it's a very exclusive material, for example, maybe it's a lifetime guarantee, or maybe it's a super famous designer, all of those reasons to spend money on, or a lot of money on the lamp. So basically in its simplest form, content-driven e-commerce is actually providing content, the content that the consumer needs to make the decision to make a purchase. Good pictures and good text drives sales. And with Drupal, we have the tools to create both pictures and texts. And with other systems, you would not have those tools because, for example, some product inventory management systems looks like this, which is not a very good editor experience. But all of this is not something that I'm making up myself. It's also one of the findings in the research projects that I refer to. It states use clear professional pictures of high quality and text with a lot of product information. This is one of the findings in the research. But I also want to use an example from my own childhood. This is my friend Atla, he's reading a catalogue about Finnish hardcore punk. And why is this relevant? Well, if you consider the catalogue as a list of titles and their prices, there is no way one would kind of have enough information to make a purchase of a very obscure Finnish hardcore punk record. But they used a lot of time and editorial resources to write things about all of the records, what do they sound like, what do they kind of remind you of. Bear in mind, this is many, many years ago, so we couldn't actually download it to check it out. But even so, the content gave us enough information to buy records from this catalogue without ever hearing about the artists before. So first, in this first section, we have seen what is content. It's description and images. And what is it driving? It's driving sales by convincing the customer. So to return to our story, we have now seen Romeo from the content family, not only accompanying Julian and the commerce family, but actually providing value that directly makes their family business better. So at this point, Julian loves Romeo, but despite having family differences, even Romeo's family seems to tolerate Julian, which brings us to the balcony scene. Julian from the merchant family has come home after an exciting day. He has been struck by love. And from the balcony, he says out loud to himself, oh, Romeo, oh, Romeo, Julian knows they're meant to be together. He's actually so excited to now know what a good content management system can do. He wants them to be together, he says. Or if that will not, but be but sworn my love and I will no longer be a merchant. Wow, that's really hard to read. At this point, Julian does not know, but Romeo is hiding in the bushes, bushes overhearing the whole thing from the balcony. And he treasures the words. And at this point, Romeo and Julian, now they are meant to be together.  For them, content and commerce will never be a part. And for this part of the talk, I want to focus on this. So first, let's just dwell a bit on not caring what everyone else thinks. Because my job is working with DrupalCommerce and I know that this is the right way to do e-commerce. And I wish I could say that I don't care what everyone else thinks either, but I know my boss do and that the platform will benefit from everyone else thinking so. So instead, I want to focus on making everyone else think that content and commerce belongs together. And I want to start by kind of elevating the term content compared to what we saw earlier. We saw earlier that making it possible to add text and images to product pages make them more attractive. That's a very basic form of content. So let's rather look at some examples of the opposite where we have the content in centric, like content pages, but the ability to add products to the content. And one such example is landing pages that our clients use for anything, front page, 30% on all Christmas products, all those are landing pages. And it's a classic problem for systems without an actual system for managing content. And here is one example from H&M, it's a landing page. They have a campaign page for their exclusive online offers. It's basically just a text sale. There's no info about what the campaign is. There's no inspirational text or pictures. Just some random links to the products. I think we can do better. And here's one example from a client. We're looking at here is a landing page. Oh, now we're at the product page. Okay. It was supposed to start with the landing page. Let's just wait a bit and enjoy this wonderful medium gif. It's a wonderful medium. This is the landing page. So what they've done is create inspirational pictures. And in all of the pictures, they are actually depicting products in their store. So they can also add these products to their pictures, which we can fetch real-time information about the prices for the loading customer. It'll go into the product pages and see more pictures, for example, some stock status. You can see big pictures and fetch real-time stock status for your closest store, for example. And all of this is possible because the system that have the information for the products is the same system that also creates these landing pages. This one specifically is also built with layout builder, another very nice content feature we have in Drupal. So here we can actually see that kind of the content on the marketing part is naturally woven together. And this is specifically a page about inspiration for the summer, so we can inspire the customers for what they feel is inspirational to buy. And we can show all of the products that are related to the pictures. Another example our clients and specifically their marketing agencies actually really appreciate is the ability to administer a page for categories in a more typical catalog type of a system where you maybe at best can add a category to your product. This will basically be just a list of products and it's limited to the method that you have. And here is one such example from Walmart and I'm not trying to talk something bad about Walmart here. Also I'm going to be completely honest, I also manipulated this screenshot to make a point. But here we can see what is essentially a pre-filtered search for the category bookcases. So the page itself only contains a list of products and it's just sorted in a specific manner. It's more about glorified catalog really. But what our clients and as I said, their marketing agencies really want is to be able to create content pages about these categories even though they are actually catalog pages. So these products are actually created through that system we saw earlier with the horrible interface. But they can still assign them to categories that we have managed in Drupal and then we can attach more metadata to those categories. For example, text and inspirational images. And then we can create what seems like it's an editorial page for that category even though it's still just a glorified catalog. And the best thing of this is that we can attach meta tags to terms. So now these pre-filtered searches are actually great SEO optimized pages so that they can score really well in a specific category that they are selling products in. And another area where the content can really benefit from the products and orders being in the same system is personalization of content. So imagine for example, building a landing page for a new campaign, a Halloween campaign for example. And you can send it out to your 100,000 subscribers to your newsletter. And maybe this is the entire content of that landing page, very short one, but let's just say that. And it can be for example, feature four products that have a super great price right now for example, 50% off. So how would you go about picking out these four products to display to the customers that are visiting the page? Well, the best way to pick those out, to convert them in the best possible way would to provide the products dynamically by actually creating the content within the same system that holds the order history. This way you could for example know that the person looking at this landing page already bought this bookshelf over here. So there is no reason to display it to them one more time. Or for example, if you have a store that sells dog food and you know that a certain person purchased the last dog food four weeks ago and they usually do it within such an interval, it's very likely if you display it to them now that they will also buy it again. Or it could be for example, your favorite color is green based on the order history. Let's just show four green products. And it's very interesting because that means basically that you can have one landing page with an infinite number of variations with minimal editorial effort. And why is all of this important? Many people will probably think that it's kind of stating the obvious, better content gives you better sales. But here we have some findings from the research project to back this up. Almost all respondents say that they like to be inspired from articles about the products and how they can be used is something that they found. And almost all respondents say that they value high competence from the store representative. So these two things is something that you might want to convey into your online shop. And here's one example of the last part here. This is how the last part being showing high competence. This is an example for a store that sells, for example, exclusive bedsheets. And we can see her there building a landing page with a quote from a person that is actually the manager at the store. So if you're used to going to that store, you know that she is actually the one that manages it and knows what she's doing. And here is what is seemingly an article that she wrote. So this conveys high competence. And there is another example on the product page showing the same very competent manager in a video demonstrating the fabric and how to use it. Which by the way is another thing people said in the research paper on why they like to go to the store. This is kind of exclusive for bedsheets type of store. They like to touch the fabric, see how it behaves when you touch it. And this is one way of transferring that kind of tactile feeling to an online presence. And here is another way to transfer that where they can use what we call a softness scale so that people can have an impression of how it's going to feel in their sofa or bedroom or whatever. And here is another finding. All respondents preferred an image showing the public place in an environment. And by all I mean literally 100% preferred that image. But this answer does not only relate to they preferred it because it's easier on the eye. The research project also shows that almost everyone thinks that providing a picture of the product in use together with a detailed picture would increase the chances for them to buy the product. Another interesting observation from the same study is the price and the expected quality versus the price. And what I mean is this study was conducted for a store that sells quality exclusive bedsheets among other things. And they have many competitors that sells similar products way cheaper than them. So the study found that customers could see themselves buying cheap bedsheets for the guest room, for example, at competing stores even if they did not excel in the content area for the web store. But buying the exclusive products made them need more information. They needed to be convinced. Which means that to distinguish yourself as a premium supplier as a web shop, you need premium content. And it's also the other way around. By providing premium content, you are giving your visitors the feeling of premium products. So we have come to the dramatic ending. Julian and Romeo have decided they would spend the rest of their lives together. And if some of you feel the history here has a familiar ring to it, it may be because I borrowed some parts of it from an English author. And if you have heard the story before, you might be afraid that they will both end up dead at this point. And if you know the story, they end up dead mostly because of communication problems and misunderstanding. This is an illustration of communication problems, by the way. But as you know, this is 2019. We have the internet. And as we all know, Drupal integrates great with other systems, communicating over the internet. So in this case, they don't die. So that's good. Whoo! So, out of the many things Drupal Commerce can integrate with are payment providers, shipping services, tax services, European systems. You name it, basically. But let's talk a bit about somewhat of content-related integrations. For example, AB testing and rich analytics. You already have all of the tools you need to create great landing pages. And the next step is to choose the right one and how to measure the impact of how you are creating this great content. Content marketing is also something you might do. Here's one example from a client where they use a famous Norwegian blogger and influencer to create campaign pages, which they also integrated with special offers and coupon codes. And all of this was in the same website toolbox since it's coupons and content and products in the same package. And other things like ads, Google shopping and retargeting and with Drupal Commerce and Drupal Commerce being Drupal, these things are available and work out of the box. So our story ends with Happily Ever After, as you can see. It ends with the Romeo and Julian buying a house in the countryside, adopting two kids, living Happily Ever After. So the story tells us that content and commerce belongs together and Drupal Commerce is the perfect platform to unite these families. But I want to go a bit further than the story. So this last part is going to kind of nuance the picture a bit and because I realized so far the story and the examples is more of a general praise of Drupal and Drupal Commerce, but to be fair, we still have some challenges that we can solve together. And since I am telling you Drupal Commerce is the platform to bet on, I want to focus on what we can do together to secure its position in the time to come. And one thing I want to focus on is this, I call it editor-driven e-commerce. And since this is a term I invented, I did as every inventor of term, I went on the internet and found an accompanying cat gift for my term. So this is the official cat gift for editor-driven e-commerce. But anyway, what I mean by this is that we need to have the editor in focus and have great administrator user interfaces. And this is an experience where we have some challenges. Granted, we do have some nice things in Drupal. Remember for some people, we are being compared to systems like this. And the fact that we have auto-complete widgets and dropdowns and I mean even colors is a step forward when you're working in this system. But I'm going to take some examples of things we have done for our editors and administrators to make their administrative lives easier. Here's one example where we're changing the promotion form to be easier to understand. And some of our clients find it hard to understand what the different selections actually do in a promotion condition selection. So we try to educate them to say, if you do a selection here, it's going to make an inclusion and if you do a selection here, it will exclude the product. So this is also a way to avoid getting support calls so that they are wondering when this goes into effect at midnight, is it going to price out my products? So is it convenient for us and for them? Here is one step that one thing that it's also convenient for us and them is communicating the sometimes advanced steps for order exports or this could also be an example of product import. But here we can see the lifecycle of an order coming in. It's getting a, I don't know if it's possible to see but it's getting a tracking ID from the shipment provider. It's getting exported to their ERP system. And then when it's coming back from the ERP system up there, it's printing the shipping sticker and it's capturing the money from the payment gateway. And this is convenient for them because sometimes they would, for example, call us and why can't I find this in the ERP system? And in here it's very transparent where the order is kind of flowing in terms of communication. But one other interesting thing we do here is error handling because when you have a store that integrates with many third party systems, it's quite often something goes wrong in that other system. And the client ends up calling us, of course. Then you debug a bit and you find out you have to call that third party vendor. The error is on their side. And so what we do in the order exports, I don't have a screenshot of that but we distinguish the log messages between internal errors and external ones. So in our logs, when there's an external error, it will say there was an external error with vendor A, this is their support email and their support phone. And by doing that, of course, that's their first thought so they call them instead of us. So it's convenient for them and for us, very convenient for us. Here is another thing that some of our clients is very relying on. It's the price debug tab. The screenshot is from a store that has 18 million products. And they find their prices from five different currencies and all the currencies are converted with a matrix for markup. And there are hundreds of price lists and promotions based on user role, prefix for SKU and the publisher where the book comes from. So when a very, very seasoned administrator would go into this page and look at this book, they would have no way of knowing why is that price 174. Because even if they knew all kinds of small parts of the system, it's very hard to keep track of it. So we have this price debug tab where we can say, for example, this one was priced up because of currency and then down again because of a promotion. And then we ended up using a price list because that is the best offer, for example. So this is also self-help for editors and administrators so that they can find out the problems themselves instead of calling us again. Because often they will find out that, oh, this book shouldn't be on a 50% offer and then they can go into the price debug tab and they see, oh, I made a mistake, my promotion. So now they don't have to call us. Other things we usually do for our clients is managing product images through Dropbox, bulk editing products through Excel, and product import debug log lines similar to the ones we saw in the order export. So basically what I'm saying is making high quality content tools makes our store administrators expect more from the backend system as well. And I think it's important to keep in mind. And I remember Boyan, he's sitting there, by the way, and he's the lead developer of Drupal Commerce. He said something along these lines last year. Sometimes interface issues ends up being just good enough and that's just the way it is with open source projects. Yes, I could shorten it to just good enough quote Boyan. Is that fine? Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that we as a community should help each other raising the bar for backend administrator experiences. And maybe sometimes we end up doing this ourselves as agencies and maybe more people should share their experiences and maybe share their code and collaborate on solutions. And I think all of these issues are connected because creating amazing editorial experiences is just one part. We have to create a better store administrator experience as well and the easier and more user friendly the editorial part is the more our clients can focus on their content, which as we have heard earlier it generates more sales. And the less they can worry about their store back in the more they can focus on this content. And think about it this way, our clients spend their entire day working in the web store solution and it's simply polite to provide them with the tools they need to not hate their job. And for us as an agency that delivers a product that means we can deliver functionality catering to the marketing department, which means we are tasked to develop features with the marketing budget instead of the IT department budget. And just to remind you, an IT department budget gives interfaces that looks like this. And while we have this very futuristic screenshot of there I want to end this talk by talking about the future. And if I should try to speculate on the future of commerce I would say it lies in the content, good integrations, great editorial experiences and a content native e-commerce platform. And I think that is ripple commerce. And I also think that the future is love. It's love for sharing experiences, sharing code, maybe finance feature development for Drupal commerce and just make our current and future users love the platform and to share that love. And with that, I thank you for your time. And are there any questions? I have one question. Yes. So those lovely landing pages you showed, is that extending terms and having them automatically or are they content driven by editors with paragraphs? If they're extending what? If they are extending terms, how do you mean terms? Or if they are controlled by the editors with paragraphs? Yes, just to repeat the question probably for the recording, the landing pages that we saw, are they extending terms or controlled with paragraphs or something or if they are controlled by the editor, right? Yeah. So what we prefer to do is use Layout Builder for everything. The huge landing page is a single Layout Builder page. The landing pages for the categories. We usually do a mix of extending the terms with the picture and description. Or you can also create a full landing page with Layout Builder on top of the term, which would basically then use Layout Builder. But it's also kind of important to not be tempted to add too much content because then you would push all of your search results further down. But the answer to the question is at least that there's a familiar interface for editing information either through the terms or with Layout Builder. Yes. Maybe if I may. Yeah. Hi, Ms. Eric. I was wondering, is there any reason to extend your findings and your ideas to business to business kind of e-commerce activities? Well, great questions. I would say yes. I would also say that even more important would probably be to extend the research into the business to business area because this specific research project was focusing on a specific use case, so to speak, and business to business have other needs. But I don't know. Business to business solutions are evolving as well, even though they are kind of behind probably mostly in the content area. But I don't know. Maybe in the future, that could be something that you need to do to distinguish yourself in the business to business market. But I would say probably the most important takeaway is that having such a research project is very interesting and learning from the findings. And it would be great to have a similar one for a B2B project. Just as everybody's a bit tired now. Yes. Thank you for listening for the very last talk.


Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning of Wednesday, February 3rd. I'm Chief Meteorologist John Anso with Furlough on the public media. We start this forecast week with a moon only in the early morning sky, for a third quarter, heading towards noon next week. And of course, happy Groundhog's Day, just a day or two before this went live. The Groundhog did see its shadow, which, according to local lore, means that we get six more weeks of winter. If you look at the climatology and the meteorology of western Pennsylvania and compare it to the Groundhog's forecast, he's only been right about 30 or 40 times. It'd be better if he just flipped the coin. Let's take a look at the drought index over Colorado for last week to this week and you can see very little has changed. We're just in that pattern, we're cold air, keeps evaporation from doing much at all. We're getting a snowpack up in the mountains, but that hasn't started to melt and replenish the soil below. So we're just waiting to see what spring brings. Certainly west of the Rockies and the divide, things are much better than out here on the plains. Looking nationally, things haven't changed much either. A little worse than drought out here in the west in Great Basin. Looking at the precipitation we did get over the last seven days, we got a little bit. We got that light snow earlier in the week. We have just 10th of an inch, 500ths of an inch out here on the plains. Little bit better amounts, half inch amounts up in the mountains. So the story for the weather this week really is the high amplitude pattern that we have set up now. For a long time it's been a little bit of a ridge, a little bit of a trough, things kind of moving around. Now we've got this monstrous ridge all the way up across much of the hemisphere and corresponding massive trough in the east. And this is what's giving us amazing heat as we go into the beginning of this week. And in the upper air pattern can be seen with the moisture vapor satellite. We have that same bulge in the moisture from the tropics. And if that only would stay around long enough for us to get some snow out of it, it'd be great. But it looks like it's going to get pushed aside and the plains will see more of what we would like. So looking at Wednesday morning, we do have a big storm gathering in the west. We have a cold front sweeping down through the mountains and another one reinforcing cold trout up in Montana. And lots of snow, lots of rain for other people. Looking at the 10-day ensemble, for us we stay really warm up at the top end, a little bit above normal. Normal temperatures are rising at one degree over those 10 days from both lows and highs. And what we're focused on is this big change coming this weekend. We have a little bit of precipitation possible on Wednesday night as the initial front hits. And then we have this unsettled pattern and temperatures going to way below normal at that same time. So that means snow, but how much? So here we are looking at the upper air pattern as we go into the week. This first big trough digs down. There's the weekend cold and snow. We should be down in the 20s maybe lower and near single digits or negative temperatures for Saturday into Sunday. And then the next week we have this cold north-northwest flow across the state. So we'll get another ripple through, another chance of precipitation, but basically cold air coming in. Looking at that cold air, these are above normal temperatures in the pinks and the reds. It's very above normal. Here's below normal with that trough out in the east. And here comes our initial cold front for the weekend. Look at it all the way down to the Gulf Coast scouring out the warmth. Then we get the reinforcing Saturday cold air. That is amazingly cold air. This is far below normal, 20 degrees, 30 degrees below normal. Snow. Looking at the precipitation here, you can see that storm comes in. There's a lot of snow in the northern Rockies. It hits western Colorado, gathers itself out on the plains and is gone. For the weekend we see this little upslope period kick in. It may be a day of snow and then it fades out and is gone. This has been decreasing model run to model run. So it may be a lot of the other storms it underperforms when we finally get there. And looking at what the GFS sees over the next 10 days, it doesn't really give a snow down on the I-25 corridor at all. The mountains, northern mountains get most of it. And for precipitation, again, moisture is up there. We are nearly dry. So it was looking promising earlier, not holding together right now. So over the next seven days we start out with 60s, near record high temperatures. Friday we have the effects of the cold front coming in, not just to the 40s. And then that reinforcing cold shot really kicks us down into amazing cold. So we go from amazing heat to amazing cold with that little bit of precipitation chance over the weekend and next week. Taking a look at the last month and next month of finish today. This was the forecast in December of the temperatures across the nation for January. You can see they were calling for above normal temperatures and near normal precipitation. And that pretty much did pan out for January. But if you take a look in February, they're now calling for below normal temperatures and just a little bit above normal precipitation. So the pattern is certainly setting off to keep that as a good forecast. We'll see if it holds later in February. For frequent weather updates and local news, check out the Longmont Leader at longmontleader.com. I've been Chief Meteorologist John Ensworth. Keep looking out.


War between Azerbaijan and Armenia may break out during one week, Pashinyan. The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia may begin before the end of the week if Yerevan refuses to compromise on the issue of border exclaves. This statement was made by the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan. He added that such a development is possible if Yerevan does not agree to a compromise on the border exclave villages. Pashinyan told residents of borderline villages in the Tavush province that unless Yerevan reaches a compromise with Baku, on the issue of Soviet-era enclaves along the border, a war may erupt there later this week. Now we can leave here, go and tell Azerbaijan that we are not going to do anything. This means that a war will be started at the end of this week, Pashinyan said in a video of his meeting with villagers released by the Armenian government. I know what will happen when this war ends. The Armenian Premier added as he explained that civilians would ask him after a military conflict ends why he being aware of the threat of an outbreak of hostilities hadn't warned them in advance. Pashinyan said that the process of border demarcation and delimitation between Armenia and Azerbaijan has entered the practical stage. The process of delimitation and demarcation between Armenia and Azerbaijan has entered the practical stage. This means that it is necessary to clarify where the border of Armenia actually is. Our policy is to prevent war, he said. Citing the Alma Ata and Prague agreements, Pashinyan acknowledged that the former administrative border which existed during the Soviet Union is somewhat beyond that present administrative border. He went on to call for both states to reaffirm the frontier defined by the Alma Ata agreement. Look here! There is a little girl here. She is alive. She is not here. Father, look! Look what they are fighting with. Who are they fighting with? Who are they fighting with? What are they doing? Yes. Chechen fighters ironically say that they came to participate in the presidential elections held in Russia, but they could not find a polling station for it. The fighters said that the settlement was completely deserted, abandoned by residents and Russian soldiers, and that the traitorous Chechens fighting in the Russian army did not resist them either. It should be noted that the Legion of Free Russia announced that on March 17, together with Chechen volunteers, they had taken full control of the residential area and released footage from the area. All of them successfully left the Belgorod region. One cow and a few dogs. In particular, we want to thank our national traitor Rustam Aguilov for not giving us any resistance, no difficulties.


I think we met one time years ago at Def Con and you had a segway and I remember you were the first person I ever saw or met with a segway. So it immediately made me think, aha, that person's connected.   So wherever we went, like Las Vegas, Def Con, have the segways right around. It was such a pleasant, did an incredibly great thing for those of us who wrote them. It was green before green was the thing. Yeah, it was different. But to me it was just because it was so different. Somebody had actually taken their brain and some physics calculations and it wasn't so much the greenness. I mean, if you had a big gas engine, I don't think I'd have enjoyed it as much. No, it was just nice and smooth. Yeah, I remember the gyroscopes on those were the magical hack, figuring out how to downsize those gyroscopes. Well, it was really incredible to just, it's always under you, you don't worry. Well, we saw you at Def Con zooming around swimming pools and you seemed pretty confident. And so that was pretty encouraging. Yeah, what I remember from Def Con is less that, I don't even remember having it there, but just running into people, talking to people, people that I met, and they were my kind of people because of what Def Con is about. And it's almost like to me, Def Con almost sometimes means defeat contracts. We don't follow the rules, bad rules aren't meant for us. Well, we didn't know how to throw conferences, so we invented it up along the way and we ended up with our own thing, sort of lack of rules, right? That was something older people did. I like people that, a lot of people, especially a lot of maybe musicians that I know, I love the people that just sort of went around and the rules didn't matter that much to them. They just took risky lives doing the sorts of things that you make movies about. What's your most proud of engineering or hack, I should say, that you're most proud of?  It's kind of like Bob Dylan that I mentioned.  And so there's way too many stories, but one of them is how I was designing Breakout for Atari and four days and nights, no sleep and your head wanders when you're not sleeping. This is Atari, Atari the game company, Atari Computer. Atari, the Atari computers came from Atari. They were starting the arcade game industry. It did not exist. There were no arcade games until Atari with Pong and then a few others. And I was designing Breakout right down there and four days at night. Nobody could design a game in that short of time because it's a thousand wires on a hundred chips hooking things up to get signals going just right. I spent four days up in a row and we actually completed it. Steve Jobs and I, it was all my design. But while I was there, my head wanders when you're sleeping, going to sleep. It's some of the best time to get creative thoughts or waking up and they're in your head. And I thought of, wouldn't it be great if these arcade games were color someday? It was the first time ever that arcade games were color and even more importantly, I said, wait, I'm taking numbers out of a computer. Why don't I make, rather than a wire going off to a digital display, why don't I just have the display get some of the data that's being scanned in the memory of the computer? The computer is the arcade game. So the computer was the arcade game and that meant it was software. Also Dial-A-Joke, can't forget Dial-A-Joke. I started that all on my own and I ran it. You phone a number and you get a joke. Now I go back to the blue boxes. We're talking about out-of-the-box thinking. You press a button, one, two, three, four, five, and you've got to create a couple of tones. Baby people like touch tones. And so when you press the button, it put out all these lines to the chips telling it the inputs, which number to divide by to get the tone you want. And there were two tones, all these things. And I had a little array in there. And then what occurred to me is inside the chips actually have to put out a little bit of, like if electrons are going in, a little bit of positive currents coming out, a tiny bit out of the inputs. So the inputs are also outputs. And I fed them back into the touch, all the keys, that came out one common thing that was supposed to be grounded. Meaning when you push the buttons, it'll decide which of the lines will get grounded on those chips that are making the tones. Only instead of grounding it, I actually fed it into a two transistor circuit called a Darlington amplifier, amplifies it hugely, and it provided the power that turned the chips on. And you'd say, how do the chips supply a signal to turn themselves on through all this mechanism? And it was really, but I knew how the chips worked inside analog, and so I was able to accomplish that. That was another really great out of the box. This hacker's mindset of you not only used the technology, you understood the technology so well, you could make the technology do things it wasn't ever intended. And that's what's really inspiring for me and for hackers. It's sort of like the manufacturer says, no, you can't do color, and you say, no, wait a minute, I bet I can do color. That's right, the rules don't apply if you can do it better. Right.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this graduation cap card and basically all it is is the reverse of this diamond easel card that I've done. So there is the one that I shared a few weeks ago now, many of you have been making that one and basically I've done exactly the same thing but I've just flipped it around and it has the same mechanism as the, I think it was pop-up easel or pop-up diamond card that I've done. So both of those different card styles so if you haven't seen this one and you like the look of this one I will link that one up because you could easily have the cap where this piece is just like this one and I will also share the one that has more of a kind of a spring on it, you could also add the cap to that as well. So you've got three options plus I've already done two years ago I done the graduation explosion box which was in the shape of a cap and that's been really, really popular and lots of you have been enjoying that one as well but I never done anything for graduation last year so there's lots of graduations obviously going on and you know it's the season now with that all happening so I thought I would do one. This is really easy to do I think it's come out really nicely so you lift it up and that's you can kind of see how it all works together there so that is purely decorative that just pops in there and then you can write your message it folds flat it will fit in a six by six envelope and then on the back there you've got lots of room to write your message alternatively you could put card in here you could actually have that whole piece in here and have your message but you would kind of see some of it so again it's entirely up to you there's plenty of space anyway but doesn't that look really cool I'll show you how to make your tassel and then I've just used some of the gold cardstock there and yeah it looks really good so let's make it. Okay so I've got this baker's twine here which I picked up from the works no sorry this was from the range it's just the baker's twine you've got five different colors I'm going to use the black and white then I have die cut the celebrate and these stars are just from my own stash the circle is the same circle I used when I made the explosion box and this is the very smallest of my circle dies so that's the one I've used there and this celebrate was part of a celebration die set you've got celebrate amazing you so they're really nice it's a lovely font you can see there and all I've done is I've die cut everything with some thumb foam as well so I pick up the the kind of packs of thumb foam from the range you get all different colors and I just use the black there so I've die cut it in the gold and then I've just die cut one piece of the foam and it just gives you a really nice dimension to your sentiments and you can see there just how much it's lifted off so really like that I do that a lot to be honest okay so you are going to need one piece of so you basically want a six by six card blank but I wanted black and I don't have any black card blank so I've cut this my own now I only had black a four card size so the length of that is just under 12 inches so this card is actually going to be five and seven eighths by five and seven eighths so I know there's probably going to be quite a few of you especially in the UK that will have this same issue with me I don't have a lot of colored card blanks mine are usually just white or maybe cream and things like that so if you're using a four you want to cut some card stock to five and seven eighths of an inch by your um 11 and three quarters which is your A4 default obviously anybody else you would have to cut down some 12 by 12 paper or if you're using letter card size or letter yeah letter paper size yours would be 11 so yours would be a five and a half by five and a half card base so you can do it that way as well just be a little bit smaller so if you do want to use your letter paper then you'll want yours to be five and a half by 11 but for us here in the UK you want a piece that is your A4 standard length by five and seven eighths of an inch so along the longest side you've got your first score line at five and seven eighths so that's our halfway okay and then you're going to score another one at nine I believe it was just down there okay so it's kind of halfway it doesn't really matter with the easel part whether it's you know halfway or slightly off it really doesn't make any difference but now you can fold it in half and you'll see it will line up perfectly so like I said that's five and seven eighths by five and seven eighths you would have scored at five and a half and then you will want to score at two and three quarters which will give you your halfway so you can score at two and three quarters and then five and a half okay so I'm just going to burnish those ones there so right now we just got this normal easel card okay next open it up so you've got your fold facing you okay and then we're going to do our triangles going in here and then out to here so what we need to do is just mark our halfway points so you want to mark halfway along that middle score line so no matter what size you're using you want to mark halfway now because ours is five and seven eighths you just want to mark just slightly shy of three again it's not going to make a huge amount of difference but just slightly there I've just popped my pencil marker just under three we're then going to be joining this score line here this corner up to there and this corner up to there then in this section here along each of these sides again you want to mark the halfway so you know just around about three and again here so again whatever you're using just make sure you mark the halfway and now we're going to score from there to there and there to there okay okay now you can score right across if you want just make sure that you go through that middle point that's why I do I do each one differently because I'm working slightly off just purely because of the size of this but if it is say a bang on six by six piece then you could just go right across there okay so that is our scoring there then all you need to do is this very bottom one is you want to mark again halfway so around about three and you're going to actually cut so you don't need to score you want to do a pencil mark or pencil line even from there and there and you're going to cut that one okay that's what you should have and then these score lines you're going to create mountain folds so that one there and that one there and again mountain folds with the back two like so so those are mountain these ones will then be in the valley fold position fold it all in together and you will have your card okay and now this piece when you pop it into that easel position you fold it down like so it will actually lie against that fold and that is how we're going to have the card then you want a piece that's four and three quarters by four and three quarters and that is going to stick right over there okay like so you want to line up really these left and right corners here with the ones over there it's going to overhang that's what you want it to do you want it to cover so if I turn upside down here probably can just make out there is the actual piece underneath you can see how much it overhangs about a quarter of an inch overhang okay like so so what I would say to do is if you add glue all on the bottom half of that triangle so I'm just going to run some blue all along here and just turn it over just pop that down and just make sure you have that equal overhang like so you should all lie nice and flat okay so now when you bring it up just let it rest against that and that is where your kind of stopper is going to be you can see exactly it's got a really nice shape to it I like this it's really strong as well okay so next we just need to add our mats and layers on the front and I've got this piece here for the cap so this measures four by four I believe yeah four by four and then I've also done a piece of foam foam fun foam underneath in case you can just see how thick that is there okay so again I'm just going to stick that down on top and that will just start to give you your graduation cap look really lie the whole thing down and again this should give you a nice even about a quarter of an inch border or overhang you can see there just get rid of my glue so then I've got these mats and layers so this one is going on the front and this is five and five eighths of an inch by two and three quarters and that one is going to stick directly down in that bottom section again you should have a nice border like so so I'm going to stick that one down okay there's that one and then this one here I'm going to stick on some fun foam and this is the one that's going to start to create our stopper so this piece measures one and a half by five and one eighth and that one is going to if you bring your easel kind of into position and then you just want to make sure that you get a nice little border on the front piece here like so okay and then that one will clip in there probably need to burnish I didn't say actually yeah because you don't want it to be as springy as it is so just burnish there we go and now it will just sit in there like so and then this piece I again I'm going to add some foam and this one measures one and a quarter by four and seven eighths of an inch so again just going to take my backing off and just focus on your border make sure that's all even like so and then I've got all these bits to decorate so I'm going to stick my celebrate down there this just I think really does pull it all together really nicely and then I've got my four stars I'm going to go in like so should have one more which looks like I've dropped it on the floors we'll find that in a second and then I've got my circle and I'm going to show you how to make the tassel once I've stuck all this down okay I still can't find the other star so I will look for that in a minute but I just want to get this all put together so I'm just going to unravel this black and white twine and just with my three fingers here have your end right at the bottom because that will actually become one of the tassels and just wrap it around a few times it depends how thick you want your tassel really so I like mine quite thick so I've gone and done one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve about twelve okay and then finish again at the bottom that's fine then go up and you want to be at the top bunch it all together okay and then come down about a quarter of an inch and just start wrapping around like so and then what I've done is got some glue just all around there and you want to start to kind of stick that down so it doesn't come undone like so and then from the back again add a blob of glue you're going to add hot glue to this eventually and just kind of have it sticking up okay like so just hold that there a second make sure that glue all sets like I said once you add your hot glue to it as well that will really fix it in place and then I'm just going to turn it over and then all of these pieces on the bottom you just want to cut and there is your tassels easy peasy and then you want to cut some off and depending on how much you want overhanging if I bring this one in here you'll see I've got I've stuck hot glue under there so that doesn't move that's stuck there but I've got about barely mind it goes underneath there it's about two inches so I'm just going to double up like so and just get rid of the excess there because we can trim this again in a moment and where you've stuck it on the back you just want to kind of add that to it so I'm just going to pop another bit of glue and just stick that end so now you've got this effect here now if you want to cut all those little loops there you can I'm just going to leave mine as they are but next I'm going to grab my hot glue okay I've turned my hot glue off so I'm just going to use this glue for them and it will still work and I'm just going to add a nice blob of it one on the back there and I stick it about halfway down okay like so and then this comes into the middle and you're going to stick your circle as centred as you can get it so again I'm just going to trim that now so that glue is already starting to dry and then that is going to go and cover the ends but you just want to make sure you do get it really nice and centred so again have a nice amount of glue I think that's about right just let that all stick down there you have it I think they look really really good I love this style and like I said it will work on those other diamond cards that I've shared as well so do go and check them out there will also be a playlist at the end you'll be able to look at those and I will link them on my blog as well but yeah I think they look great you can do them any colors you can go to town with them personalize them with their name here you could have your you know your messages and stuff actually on the cap there's there's so many ways to decorate them I will be back Sunday with my scrapbook layout and Monday with another fun tutorial thanks for watching bye