From the mouth of the most powerful blogger at Microsoft and possibly the universe….Robert Scoble
I’m coming, but now even the “unconference” seems like the same old, same old.
I’ll be the quiet one in the corner.
I know Robert pretty well.
I can tell you one thing - he won’t be sitting in no corner - quiet - I guarentee that.
I’ve had many volunteers and folks step up saying they’re into coming to our ‘unconference’. So to be clear - to keep it an unconference - we CAN’T plan for anything ahead of time, I am NOT in charge (though I’ll call the bar and make sure there’s food there) and we DON’T have an agenda until everyone shows up.
Assuming that happens and there’s a critical mass of coolio people - we’ll:
- post up on a wall what’s going on - again - decided there - that day
- we’ll have AV for people to hear each other
- projector to see computer demos
- and (lord willing) they’ll be Wifi around to get net access
That’s it.
Any more - and we’d ruin the moment.
April 7th, 2006 at 11:59 am
Marc, that’s not what an unconference is!
They’re very structured affairs.
http://www.bloggercon.org/iii/newbies
Please, check it out. It’s not what you think it is.
If we do an unconference, there will be a grid, and discussion leaders, and lots of planning. I think it would be great if you would come to one, but please, don’t come with these expectations. What you’re describing is something I would not participate in myself, because all anyone would talk about is “business models” and that’s just more powerlessness.
I want to talk about Amazon S3, and what we can build on it.
And S3-alike systems.
And what namespaces do we need for RSS.
And how to bootstrap the next layer of the web.
Real stuff, not airy fairy stuff.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
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