Hear the award-winning New Yorker columnist talk about the power of large groups (including on the Internet) to make remarkably intelligent decisions. The session will also cover the problems and challenges that large groups present.
link to the website.
Highly inspiring conference about how groups of people can be smarter than an individual, about the collective intelligence and the net being the best tool to tap into this hidden knowledge.
Posted: March 11th, 2006 | Author: m-c | Filed under: sxsw06 | 2 Comments »
I am so happy some other bloggers took notes from a conference i wasnt able to attend.
Justin Hall presentation notes.
flickr started out as an attempt to create a browser-based video game and has actually succeeded by creating a game out of reality in that people are organizing themselves aroud things that they otherwise would not have even thought about.
Posted: March 11th, 2006 | Author: m-c | Filed under: sxsw06 | Comments Off
Some bloggers argue that you only become effective by putting more skin in the game, but is there such a thing as being too naked? Can you open your kimono in one blog post, and wear a button-down shirt in another? This panel showcases bloggers who opted to bring their personal lives onto their professional blogs, with varying degrees of success
panel notes:
- where to draw borders, boundaries between professional and personal life? that is the question for most of us, hybrid bloggers
- there’s a lot of talk about authenticity, being true and transparent — this is obviously the future
- some bloggers experienced being laid of, not being renew a contract and they suspect it has to do with their blogs
- a few have experience negative feedback from blogging personal stuff
- hybrid personal and professional blogs are difficult to handle, many questions are rising up
- blogging can be a significant improvement to your career and push you in a direction where your talents are of use
- professional bloggers blog for their own ‘platform’, not for a corporation they are working for
- m-c: people will tend to stop separating professional and personal life, meaning being the same person at work and in their out of work life
- googling someone to get information and get a pre-convince idea of who the person is is more and more popular
- is it healthy to combine your pro and personal blog together?
- by blogging thoughts you must realize that your thoughts are being exposed- would you send them to someone by email or on a bulletin board?
- many bloggers ‘blog because they have to’ — it is a need to express feelings and communicate ideas and thoughts to maintain sanity
- should we now, we when get hire by a company, mention that we have a blog?
- employers will have to adapt with the fact that employees are publishing personal and professional life information on the web.
Panel page. tags: sxsw, sxsw06.
Posted: March 11th, 2006 | Author: m-c | Filed under: sxsw06 | Comments Off
I just read that biz is leaving for austin tomorrow. I already wrote about biz on this blog, i’m a fan. He’s one of my idols since he’s been writing the first book i’ve read about blogs. I’ve read it twice. Clever and funny.
I bet i’ll be nervous when he’ll be around. I guess that’s what happens when you’re groupie of someone.
Clap your hands say yeah.
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Otherwise, i, hm we, pretty look like lobsters right now – i laid by the swimming pool, being absolutely aware that i was laying directly in the sun without any protection, but i did not care. Some of you know how pale my skin is, and how easy it turns red. So now i am, a happy lobster i would say.
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We in austin like to call ourselves the Quebec crew. We still argue about why we should or should’nt wear a Canadian badge, but this is a story i wont get into.
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Conferences are starting tomorrow.
Posted: March 11th, 2006 | Author: m-c | Filed under: sxsw06 | 1 Comment »
22h14 heure de Montréal, 21h14 Austin.
I left home around 8h30, arrived in Austin around 16h. My first ‘official’ trip on US ground. What of a contrast it is to leave in the cold and be landing in a city where people are wearing t-shirts and shorts. Même les gougounes font partie intégrante du décor.
Welcome to summer city. I needed this.
Taxi-bikes are rolling around, Tacos shop are on most street corner, and the city is, due to its inhabitant care or strict city rules, damn clean. Oh, and vedgie friendly food for me. One thing i remembered: i hate these city hotels where you cant open the windows. I am an air sign, i need open windows to feel and hear the environment i am into – if not, i feel i am missing something.
I havnt been able to do that much so far, a little tired and this headache just wont leave me. We attended a pre-sxsw interactive 6 to 9 thing tonite, and already ideas are starting to pop. I’ve met these folks who started a web based service where bloggers will be put in contact with publishers from traditional media (ie print medias) so that content from bloggers could be printed in your favorite newspaper next saturday. (* name of this service and the people coming soon, cant remember it right now).
This just made ideas and thoughts spin around my mind. What i have been thinking about over the last week, trying to define who the average blogger is, or who i am as a blogger, is starting to take shape, and make more sense every day.
I am not a diarist, i am not a journalist. I am stuck in between. I am a new personage in the scene, a new actor in your favorite movie, Ze Medias. The information i report, the way i do bring it to you, is unique – so is it for the billions of blog entries posted everyday. And there is a demand for that, for user created content, but there is a gap between this new content and the one coming from traditional medias – how will we cohabit? How will traditional media adapt, how fast will it change, how ready are the big players for this transition? Money seems the be one of the big issue, because without anyone afraid of loosing billions, all this could look like a playground where we would be changing and shaping the new face of medias.
Another idea flip flop fly’n on my mind since a few days is about the ‘voyeurism’ tag associated to blog readers since blogs are blogs: blog writers are self centered and egoistical, and blog readers are feeded by intimate life details, ideas and thoughts coming from the blogs they read.
What if on the opposite, being closed and not interested in what other people have to say-think-do – what if this would be wrong, and much worse than doing all of the mentioned above?
tags: sxsw, sxsw06.
Posted: March 10th, 2006 | Author: m-c | Filed under: sxsw06, Traveling | 3 Comments »
