Final Closing Thoughts on Gnomedex 09
Image by Josh Bancroft via Flickr When you go to a convention you really never know what you are really going to get. Sometimes you get something totally cool that makes you stop and think, while at other times you get stuff that is so mind bogglingly dull that it is hard to believe that [...]
Gnomedex Day 2: Beginning of the Wrap Up
Gnomedex Day 2 was well worth visiting, mostly about the social part of social networking and how we use technology to do things, accomplish goals, or support folks. The more interesting example of the group was Bongo The Movie, where people raised money to help a band in Tunisia make an album. The best speech [...]
Spam: Probably the Most Interesting Speech of the Day at Gnomedex 09
Had the opportunity to listen to one of the older purveyors of Pill Spam on blogs, Pligg, and other social networks. I owned a Pligg site there for a bit and was intimately wrapped up in the Pligg comment spam issue to the point where the stie was actually shut down by the ISP due [...]
The Robot that Sharing Built: Gnomedex 09 Speaker 4
Ok this is the coolest robot ever (see the picture to the right) from Makerbot Industries; they are giving the presentation right after lunch. The previous speaker pretty well bombed based on the twitter feedback and other communications channels that are letting the world know how Gnomedex is going. The device is a 3D printer, [...]
Chris Brogan and Julian Smith: Second Speakers at Gnomedex 09
The attention wars heat up with the second speaker at Gnomedex, while we are all here at the conference and on twitter and on FriendFeed and on Facebook or the social network of choice that we use, how do we manage attention for our readers. Once we have attention reputation and trust we seem to [...]
Getting the Perfect Interview: First Speaker at Gnomedex 09
Image via Wikipedia Well this is an image that is burned in my brain, if you want to be a good interviewer you need to approach this from the idea of being a good lover. The first speaker today Warren Ethridge is talking about being the best at interviewing and how the art of the [...]
