Project Goals – Annhiliate Bill Gates and feast on the bloody remains of his shattered empire Liberate the world from the encumbering bondage of proprietary software make it simple talk to the masses didnt want to take the linux route take it to the audience to the most people possible competitioin – pushes them IE [...]
How to be a Creative Leader the programmer dungeon – does it work – do we have stories – devs need to control their environment – werner – keeps team small teams should not be larger than you can feed with 2 pizzas cannot have group meeting without regulating it Jim Roberts – when they [...]
Awesome – beth from SL has been participating at gnomedex this weekend and today gave a group of us a short tour in second life. Discussed: Avatars Construction Land Cool spaces (art gallery, fan-built MYST game, record label online with lounge for listening to artists) Quick primer on buildinf objects in 2L AWESOME – easily [...]
boundaries between fans and presentation/music How do fans interact how to give power back 2 spaces – stage and audience space – existed since greek times power of fan, power of audience participatory culture REM – SD 2003 – estab norms of space fans determin the set list bands control over the audience becomes complicated [...]
Pud discusses his sites (f*ckedcompany, Mobog, others) his presentation is 20 minutes of me me me discussion – VC, experiences with old school press advertising – CPA (cost per acquisition)
Open Standards how do we evolve – what is a standard – how do we acknowledge super geek – innercore nerds influence early adopters have something to do with the software – build influence RSS day ackn the fact that RSS was open standard that is why we are here so with rss what we [...]
All in all this was a great unconference. The crowd was fun and engaged, the wifi was fast and the conversations were great. The overall take-away was that with Bloggercon, like blogging or participating in any event, you get out of it what you put into it. Unlike conferences where you veg out and then [...]
Kickoff with Dave – Discussing Jargon and shorthand and how we protect knowledge, how we speak in code (medical, advertising, etc) How the “Priesthood” gets involved, protects its interests, creates coded communications for their own protection/support/continuation of their architectures of control. What we dont discuss is how sometimes this is unintentional or a byproduct of [...]
Early Mornign (with only 2 hours of sleep) Outstanding sessions Interrupted by a conf call with the client Hung out with Ashish and Guarav from TEKRITI! Very cool guys (who are doing tons of cool stuff) Darn good crowd Doc doing a kickass job as technographer (which is diff from other conferences I have been [...]
The following is a natural for Structured Blogging Seems like Toshiba is launching a software product that allows users to take a photo of a barcode and get data back with reviews on the product from, yes, you guessed it – BLOGS http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/08/toshiba-to-get-blog-reviews-to-mobile-shoppers/