Robert Scoble is in Amsterdam and inviting for a dinner tonight. I’m afraid I can’t make it – would be really nice to talk, especially in respect to my recent “coming back” into business blogging issues…

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/12/04.html#a1867; comments are here.

• BlogWalk Seattle: people
• Location-aware future
• The Robots and media contagion

The best feedback you can have as an event organiser – Ton on his experiences at Reboot 8:

On the way to the after party, someone asked me what I like to do in my spare time.
THIS.

I planned to go initially, but had to make choices. Now, like circles on the water, I see the circles of photos, notes and reflections in online spaces around me.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/06/12.html#a1773; comments are here.

• BlogWalk Seattle: conference attention modes
• Food and bloggers coming Sunday
• Location-aware future

By coincidence I found out that Nancy is coming to Europe in a near future. Wonder, why it always have to be like that?

We have many location-aware tools, but those I know are pretty much about now and past: showing where people are or where they’ve been. I want to see the future.

I’m ready to share my travel calendar with my friends. I guess many of them would do the same. I’d love to have some tool that would allow me to:

• share selected events from my Outlook calendar with my online friends (ideally using my friend lists in whatever tools with friends I specify instead of making another one)
• have a notification tool saying something like “Nancy is coming to Europe – may be you should check if you can be around” or “do you know that X are coming to the same conference as you do” or “three of your contacts are going to be within 20 km range from that meeting in Germany next week”

It shouldn’t be that difficult. And we need something like that. In the world where far-away-very-close-friends make us looking at any chance for a meeting it doesn’t make sense to leave it to coincidences…

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/06/12.html#a1772; comments are here.

• Weblogs as mushrooms
• Amour of India
• Something unspeakably alien

These are more “notes to myself” from the discussions at BlogWalk Seattle on the nature of (un)conferences; not a coherent text.

The world is changing:

• opportunity to connect with and to meet far away people
• being there (physically or online) costs more (energy, time, money) – also because now we can connect with those far away

Getting together f2f:

• critical mass is important to make sure interesting things happen
• you want to be sure in that to get into what it takes to be there
• it’s more about opportunities, than problem, which is always difficult to justify
• so, what are the attractors powerful enough to attract “right crowd”?
  • shared goal / topic
  • strong connections with others
  • authority trusted enough to rely that the previous two will be there

Events attention models

Two extremes:

• centralised/authority – “star performers” who can hold attention of big groups with finely crafted messages and engaging interaction style
• distributed/community – “open space” – designed so everyone can attract as much attention as it’s worth in a particular group

Backchanneling – something that happens during an event designed with the centralised model in mind, but without “star performers” who can hold attention – so it’s diverted into other channels. Those “other channels” would be legitimate conversations in the “open space” case, but they are not in the centralised model – hence authority challenges and resistance.

Logistics

• Centralised attention events are easier to plan
• Distributed attention events are challenging – how to make sure that those who have something to say have an audience?
  • Enough attractors (critical mass)
  • Visibility of attractors (knowing whom to talk/listen to)
  • Movement around (being there at the right moment)

Technology actually enables a lot of that :)

More:

• inspiration – backchannel modes by Liz
• edit it as eventAttentionModes wiki page

Technorati: BlogWalk, BlogWalkSeattle, unconferences

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/09/07.html#a1658; comments are here.

• Ideal intellectual communities
• Now in Sweden: BlogWalk 5 – blogging on the move
• BlogWalk 11 – Amsterdam, 18 May, Digital Bohemiens

People at BlogWalkSeattle:

• Cyprien Lomas
• Jia Lin
• Jon Husband
• Korby Parnell
• KrisKrug
• Lee Lefever
• Lilia Efimova
• LizLawley
• NancyWhite
• Nick Finck
• Phil Klein
• RolandTanglao

It was different and fun. Things to think and to write:

• conference attention modes
• most rewarding blogging experience
• need to play and authority challenging
• adult playgrounds (re: life between buildings and edges)

Add things to BlogWalkSeattleOutcomes.

Technorati: BlogWalk, BlogWalkSeattle

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/09/04.html#a1656; comments are here.

• Fun of book reading…
• BlogWalk 7: Mechelen, Belgium
• Communities, shared spaces and weblog reading

Monday morning I didn’t know that I’ll spend the evening in a company of The Robots (the guys behind 43 Things, 43 Places and All Consuming) and Lee LeFever welcoming Cameron Marlow who happen to be in Seattle with beers and fun.

Between other things we had a nice presentation of Cameron’s dissertation research (photos by Daniel Spils and Erik Benson), talked about blogs and dreams and all other 43 things…

Cameron’s dissertation (The structural determinants of media contagion) should be online soon – there is a lot of good stuff in there… A few things to remember:

• there seem to be a correlation between the frequency of updates and number of incoming links for a weblog
• static and dynamic links (blog homepage/permalinks, see earlier research) are not that different (on 1 month sample) in terms of connectivity (re: mapping blog communities) – survey data on types of relations behind linking explains some of it
• there is no S innovation diffusion curve in the blogosphere – if something picks up it happens exponentially
• meme traces are visible in patches – how much ideas travel through backchannel?
• survey response rate and travel through the blogosphere really picked up once Cameron added funny banners to it
• upflux didn’g gain much support and has been discontinued – bad for blog research

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/08/17.html#a1633; comments are here.

• BlogTalks 2.0
• Dinner with Robert Scoble in Amsterdam tonight
• Weblog conversations revisited: an introduction

Just in case someone local missed this post at Nancy’s blog:

So lets have a potluck. SEATTLE! Sunday, July 10th, 3pm at my house. Bring some food and drink. We’ll have the BBQ fired up, all the cups/plates/utensils handy plus a huge green salad.

Email to RSVP (I’d really appreciate that) and to get directions (nancyw AT fullcirc DOT com). Kids are welcome as Liz has kids in the 8-11 range. If things get crowded, we can walk down to the neighborhood park. If we don’t have enough food, we can go to the story or pizza place. Heck, maybe someone can beercast/foodcast the event!

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/07/07.html#a1602; comments are here.

• You can’t participate in life via conference call: media vs. pace
• BlogWalk in Seattle: (un)conference? blogging?
• Paper: Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?

Erik van Bekkum:

A call for bloggers in The Netherlands! I have been thinking with Lilia Efimova and Ton Zijlstra about getting bloggers together during the holidays and get to meet the people behind the blogs…we’re thinking about doing something fun and informal, perhaps a picknick, on a Saturday?

Who is in? Go to the comments field of this entry and let us know who you are, where you live and what period would best suit you. If you cannot attend, syndicate this entry to your blog or email your blogofriends.

Of course, it’s going to a be a Dutch treat! And: you don’t have to actually have a blog to come. It’s going to be fun!

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/07/16.html#a676; comments are here.

• Food and bloggers coming Sunday
• BlogWalk Seattle: people
• Location-aware future