dcinput daily for Sat 24th June, 2006
I’ve been listening in to the live wecast for Bloggercon over the last couple of days. Very interesting in many ways. All the usual suspects are there in some shape or form: Dave Winer, Doc Searls, Robert Scobble etc etc.
I’m impressed by the technology. The fact that a conference can go on the other side of the planet yet I can listen to it live over the internet, on my lap top, in a cafe with wireless is great. The fact that I can also participate in some way through the IRC channel is even better [IRC is new to me and it’s been quite a challenge listening to the conference while reading and writing in there simultaneously!]. When you think that people all around the world are doing this, how great is that? Well I think it’s great.
Plus it looks like we’re all watching the Argentina - Mexico World Cup match.
They are calling this an unconference. The idea being that in the room at any one time there is more knowledge in the room than a panel of speakers can ever have. Everyone in the audience becomes a participant and a discussion leader walks around and guides the discussion.
Interesting session on Building Bridges. Made me think quite a bit.
Boris Johnson has a blog!
Kosso needs a VMware brain [from the IRC]: “we got football = bigbrother - SL and irc”
Geez i’m really finding this crazy multi-tasking hard. Listening to the webcast, writing on my blog and reading the IRC channel and watching the football, following URL links from the IRC. Does this get easier with practice. I bet the kids these days find this a doddle.
I’m going to try and find Kosso in second life at his RSS platform. Grrr it’s asking for me to download a new version of second life and for some reason it won’t download…
OK so I am now in Second Life (SL) on the RSS platform listening to Bloggercon live and direct to Real Life (RL). Weird. Kozzo seems to be somewhere else though I can see his avatar.
Oooh my poor powerbook is freaking out.
Me and Kosso are sitting around the fire on the RSS Platform listening to the Bloggercon webcast from within SL. Cum bah yah!
Some photos from Bloggercon.
Right enough of this shenanigans. I’m off to meet some real people in a real bar and actually chat to them. Might even have a beer and everything.
God is this the future?
June 27th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
[…] In many ways I am still trying to find this digital cinema community on the web. It may be that there simply are not many people from the industry using blogs in this way. I am hoping that this will change. Taking part in Bloggercon IV over the weekend have made me sure of the importance of this new medium. […]
July 1st, 2006 at 11:40 am
[…] Gnomedex Day 1 Having learnt from Bloggercon last week that trying to do too many things at once can be bad, I decided to stick to the webcast and IRC for the first day of Gnomedex 6.0. Streaming video was a huge improvement on just having audio. It’s far far easier to get an understanding of what is actually going on in the room. Though it seems that maybe bandwidth problems got the better of them since after lunch only an audio stream was being cast. […]