Groovy event corner: look out for the Blogs & Social Media Forum organised by VNU in London on May 17th. Check out the programme and you’ll see the reason I’m talking about it. I’m facilitating an Open Space session with m’colleague Johnnie Moore during the day as an antidote to powerpoint pain and panel proliferation….
[I feel the need to put this post straight a little. The following two paragraphs are not my view, I was one of those who disagreed with the tone and substance of Mena’s speech, and I was active in the backchannel before and after (my handle was perfectpath – you can see what I said),…
I’m sure my literal translations of English idiom into French are amusing too, but I had to snigger when Gilles Klein introduced Adriana yesterday thus: “The Lady, it’s a blogger” This was before the pictures were shown of her out shooting commies in the forest. tag: lesblogs & language
Finding it hard to concentrate – I have a stiff neck and a headache (bloody french food) and I’m struggling to keep up with the backchannel, the panel speakers and my own brain – now Loic just put up the pictures of Adriana shooting in Pennsylvania so I’m giving up on even trying to pay…
Settled into my seat at Les Blogs II, wifi working – the unofficial irc just became the official backchannel and made it up on the screen. Sadly, I can’t bluetooth my phone to my pc to post pictures immediately. I’ve Rachel to the left of me and Nicole on the other side of Rachel. Right…
I’m speaking next week at Online Information, the huge VNU information management conference and show at Olympia. I’m going to be speaking on wikis in a session on Wednesday led off by Jimbo Wales. So, nervous and unconfident about what I’m going to have to say to add to the wisdom of His Worshipful Wikipedianess?…
Suw has drafted me in to facilitate an evening of discussion about digital rights and ORG. Apparently there’ll be networking and wine too! ORG is the Open Rights Group, the outcome of a long conversation that culminated with Danny O’Brien from the EFF starting a pledge drive for an EFF-like organisation in the UK on…
If you want to gain trust in your profession, conversation is the best way to achieve it. Nowadays we do much more talking than we did in the past but we haven’t studied conversation. Talk is different from conversation. In the beginning, people were scared to talk, it was dangerous to say the wrong thing,…
Intelligent Agents Adaptive Systems – centralised networks and the effects of congestion. Examples: Small World network – six degrees of separation and ordered network with a few random links. Scale Free network characterised by most nodes having very few connections but a few having many – like the www with hubs and super-hubs. Exponential network…
Life in the metaverse – 30 days in ActiveWorlds. Shows us a demo of ActiveWorlds with lots of caveats about the clunkiness of the interface and the cheesiness of the music. He walks around the world and meets people. The default avatar for people who haven’t paid sucks and people who have paid aren’t very…