Technology: May 2008 Archives

I recently attended the mesh conference in toronto (and meshU).  I tend to take non-linear notes, not so much as a way to revisit the words, but as a way to keep my mind focused on the lecture or panel discussion and to make myself feel a little more apart of the conversation.

Anyway, I posted my notes up to flickr and I just noticed Michael O'Connor Clarke used them in a recent blog post.

To add my feedback to the quote in controversy ("The Customer is not that Smart" by Dave Jones). I don't think it's something you want to tell your customers to their face (or behind their backs), but as it relates to what they hired you to do, it's probably true, or they wouldn't have hired you to do it. It also doesn't mean that they're dumb.

Thanks Michael.

We need more content creators.

There are too many content reviewers... To many internet observers... too many apologists and evangelists...To many tweets twittering the latest and feeds feeding ravenous on their own selfish and anything but subtle self analytics.

We need content creators of diversity and vision and uniqueness.... risking the critical eyes of the observers in their millisecond glance and off-handed dismissals. Dancing a dirge in the mist of the vociferous fangs of the technorati and their buzzfeeds.

At least that's what I need.

Seven minutes of terror and a hollywood ending!

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Congratulations to the entire team. I guess the iterative, release early, release often approach doesn't really fit this type of work.

I attended the Mesh Conference this past week (and also MeshU). Good times had by all, especially the proverbial bump and grind with the microcelebrities of the inter-tech world (Daniel Burka, Nora Young, Leah Culver, Ethan Kaplan, David Usher, John Resig, Ryan Carson, Avi Bryant, Lane Merrifield, Garret Camp, Eric Schonfeld, and more!!!)

One of the main themes I felt that all the participants addressed in one form or another was the Social Web. Or social media. Or social. Or welcome to the social. It's an obvious concept and it seems that most of the conversations, both public and private, focused on this.

I can't Dance

I might be behind the curve or dancing in the wrong club, but for the most part, especially with regard to the enterprise conversations that focused on monetizing the social space, the true concept of Social was misunderstood and even ignored. When the enterprise looks at taking advantage of the "new social space" or the red-bull entrepreneur seeks out the next big thing, it undermines the truth behind "the social". And it's no wonder so many start-ups fail and enterprise social experiments suck.