Talks about the presidential election in 2000, 9/11, Trent Lott, shuttle accident. Things are changing.
Old school journalism: a lecture.
New journalism: more like a seminar or a conversation.
Your readers, your audience, know more about the world than what you know. When journalists grasp this and builds on this, things are going to happen.
Assembling an amateur newsroom. Amateurs send photos to NASA. NASA understands the new landscape better than many news organizations.
Phonecams - we get pictures from new places.
Bob Woodward interviews D. Rumsfeld 9/11 and the Pentagon publishes the transcript on the web. New sense of openness that we will see more of in the future.
Three scenarios:
1. Copyright cartel + the state = total control. Not a likely outcome.
2. Total anarchy. Old/big media goes away. Not really a good solution. Truth/trust are a problem here.
3. Melding of new and old media. His favourite. It can be done; it’s not simple. He’s working on a book, making a case for it.
Used to be always men on tech conferences; she’s trying to speak at conferences as much as possible.
She is working for the Lafayette project and asks for suggestions for a better name for the project.
What makes weblogs unique is the chronologically ordered stuff, with timestamps.
Distributed discussions. Important distinction before and after weblogs; the permalink is the key.
She is very positive to Typepad. On the writing side, we’ve had great evolution of tools.
RSS doesn’t scale well: millions of blogs and millions of aggregators, could perhaps clog the net.
Lafaytte 1.0 will be an RSS reader for the web. Release: july. We want to build on top of that, recommendation engine. We want feedback and want to build from that.
Metablogs - multiple people taking about similar stuff.
Scott Heiferman talks about meetup. Its being used for political activism &c (besides trekkies and bloggers meeting). Habermas2.0.
He was inspired by Putnam’s Bowling alone and tried to use the net to counter that evolution of sparser social webs.
The Internet is a network of people.
Space + time.
What is blogging? Blogging introduces chronology, chronological order whole lot of great invention yet to be done on the net by combining time and space.
The importance of meeting people in real life.
He did not mention geourl.
Semantic web.
RDF data makes it possible to do real powerful searches. More and more apps produce data with semantic web data markup. The thing now is to do apps with good user interfaces to make it possible for ordinary humans doing searches.
He’s talking about copyright, the arts and the Net. Theater and vaudeville tried stopping radio, Hollywood tried to stop homevideo. Now, these industries are making big money from these technologies.
Copy protection, licensing costs &c is built in in Nokia phones, DVD discs and similar technologies - “my firm belief is that companies that do this will be failures”.
Apple iTunes doesn’t compensate artists but labels; many artists don’t get nothing from the Apple store.
We’re losing academic freedom. Univ of Wyoming are running a tool that looks at every packet on its network; think of the possibilities for a modern-day McCarthy.
He likes compulsory licensing like Internet Radio licensing that collects money to artists; he doesn’t like the new EU laws - recently implemented in Denmark and Sweden - that makes downloading files unlawful.
I am at reboot 6 and will do some conferenceblogging during the morning.
There are a lot of interesting stuff about teaching and presentations.
Recently I took part in a course on teaching for university teachers. It dealt with voice, stage presence, the disposition of the material, how to make slides &c. After the course I became interested in what classical rhetoric had to offer and read an introduction, Kurt Johannesson, Retorik eller konsten att övertyga (Stockholm, 1998).
Quite a lot of the tips in the course where covered in classical and early modern rhetoric (even though it more or less went unacknowledged in the course).
Now playing: Chicks on speed, Kaltes klares Wasser
Edward Tufte’s suggested readings on teaching are listed here by Peter Lindberg. Is the list from Tufte’s recent publication on Powerpoint presentations?
Next week I’m going to Reboot6. It’s going to be great!
Now playing: Welle:Erdball, Lass uns ein Computer sein
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