Saturday, April 17, 2004 — 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.David Weinberger, discussion leader
Blogs seem to have underpeformed in businesses that would benefit: business that have high contact witgh their customers
In
the mid-90s: “Create your own homepage” software was all the rage. It
didn’t take off, but blogs — a variation on that theme [...]
Saturday, April 17th, 2004 — 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Lisa Williams, discussion leader
Lisa: Developers work in the dark
A couple of answers to Lisa’s first question: “Why do you blog?”
“I’m a poser, I don’t blog”
Dan Bricklin: Likes the feedback, does it for business reasons, express himself, connect with people
Some discussion about categories — [...]
Saturday, April 17th, 2004 — 8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Dave Winer, discussion leader
This is a user’s
conference, not a developer’s conference. There are plenty of
conferences catering to developers, but few address the concerns and
needs of the users. Yes, as bloggers, we’re all users, but it’s too
easy [...]
Dude! I tried acid because of you!
Seriously, here’s John Perry Barlow, leading the dicussion on the emotional life of blogs:
Here’s Philip leading the “Clay Shirky’s Power Law” discussion:
Be sure to read Lisa’s blog, Learning the Lessons of Nixon.
Here’s Dave Winer, hosting the opening session…
“Okay, who owns this accordion? Anyone? Anyone?”
Greetings to all from Harvard!
I’m currently sitting in the front row of Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School, where the opening session of BloggerCon 2 is taking place as I write this. I’ll post updates throughout the day, as the place is soaking in WiFi and interesting people.
Here are the last of my notes from the presentation for The Corporation. I’m going to gather them all into a single entry and post that entry next week.
You might want to see part one and part two of the notes.
The Hockey Allegory
The general feeling in professional
hockey [...]
Here are my notes from Cory Doctorow’s reading last night. I entered
the notes straight into my PowerBook in point form and fleshed them out
with a little sentence format and HTML last night.
The Reading
I arrived about ten minutes into Cory’s session, during a reading of what I later found out was Human [...]
The Film and The Book
Bakan called himself the content maker, giving credit to Achbar and Abbott for their filmmaking skills.
Tried
to make the book less driven by dry analysis and driven more by
stories. He wanted to draw the the points he wanted to make from the
stories, which really serve as [...]
Here’s the first of my notes from last night’s session with Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation. More later today.
Innis TownHall Theatre was packed solid, even with the extra
folding chairs that had been set up. It was decided to open the
balconies which ran the length of the sides of [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
