I just had a wacky idea.
We know what social network software is, right.
Now suppose we turned a conference into a social network.
Ask everyone who’s coming to sign up with LinkedIn or Friendster, or maybe Ted Leonsis’s new system.
Then we ask people to check off people they’d like to talk with at the conference, and make [...]
Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category
23 Apr
Social networks in meatspace
10 Mar
Dinner at La Costa, Sunday March 12
Let’s have a Scripting News dinner at La Costa this Sunday night.
Not sure if they still have the speaker’s dinner at Esther’s; but I remember what it was like when I was a newbie and didn’t have a dinner date on the first night of the show and all the cool people had been [...]
9 Mar
A rambler on flaming in the blogosphere
Talking with Scoble today we agreed that the blogosphere has gained many of the negative traits of mail lists or Usenet. There are certain topics that, if approached, will result in a flameout. So you don’t go there.
Imho there’s no point blogging if you accept those constraints. There aren’t many people who do the [...]
5 Mar
What is an unconference?
The idea for an unconference came while sitting in the audience of a panel discussion at a conference, waiting for someone to say something intelligent, or not self-serving, or not mind-numbingly boring. The idea came while listening to someone drone endlessly through PowerPoint slides, nodding off, or (in later years) checking email, or posting [...]
3 Mar
Bay Area Tech Conferences
Why was yesterday’s conference so good, for me? Well, it’s the first time I’ve been to a conference in this format, where companies do short presentations and then take questions and criticism from a panel and from the audience. Obviously a lot depends on how good the questions are, and they were spotty at this [...]
16 Feb
What’s rotten about tech conferences
Marc Canter explains why it’s so ridiculous that leading tech conferences sell speaking slots. I agree with almost everything he says. Here’s my two cents.
First, it’s okay to make money, really, I’m not just saying that. I like to make money myself, and a good portion of my time is spent trying to make money, [...]
