More thoughts on improving this game that arose while at etech. I would like to know who paid to be on stage. It is like google ads – the real search results are on one side and the ads are on the other. We should know who is buying our attention for how much. We should vote on who we want to let buy our attention as an audience – after all we did pay $1300 to be there (and our hotel on top of that). Didn’t we pay not to have it bought?
Can we have better feedback loops beyond IRC. At TED last year they had a little text message voting thing that you could use to say what you thought of the speaker as they wrapped up.
We had some amazing talks about great philosophical ideas that could inform a lot of folks work in this space. I wondered about the possibility of having the audience actually process (talk to itself) about the ideas and things it is learning about. How might that idea, notion, research fact influence and affect the work all these ‘alpha geeks’ are doing.
I have started a blog on unconferences to gather more practices and ideas and thoughts. unconference.net and unconferences.org, net and com will resolve there within the week.
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People like Gnomdex so there is BAR Camp
From Marc Canter
Doc and I are doing a panel on the ‘OpenWeb’ so I hope folks come or at least tune-in via webcast or IRC. But the AO conference WILL be propogated by VCs and rich people – and I prefer hanging out with normal people the best.
That’s why I love Gnomedex. I sure hope there’s another one – soon – like at the end of September.
I found this in my list of saved but not posted blog posts. Seems like Marc’s wish is going to come true – BAR Camp is this weekend. I just found out about it from Eugene Kim’s blog (he has been posting some great stuff this past week about wikimania and collaboration patterns). Likely I will go down with Mary and share the demo of i-names sso working on wordpress that I did at DrupalCon in Porland two weeks ago.