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BloggerCon: Bloggers and money: BloggerCon: Bloggers and moneyjust say commercialismmoney and hex is what sells, lolUSuggest.com and monetize you blogUSuggest.com allow the bloggers to make some extra money through recommended products directly from within their blogs, and hopefully directing their readers to online retailers. As such, the respective blogger would receive a commission from...; Tags: Blogging, Sales force management, USuggest.com, Bloggercon; Discussion threads 2006-06-27
BloggerCon: Standards matters: BloggerCon: Standards mattersEmotional StandardsIt's amzing how emotional geeks can discuss about standards. I made a small cartoon about this at:http://geekandpoke.blogspot.com/2006/06/emotional-standards.html; Tags: Quality, Bloggercon; Discussion threads 2006-06-25
A Hamburger Today: Now that BloggerCon is over, I'm going to start releasing some of the backlog of Attention Deficit Theatre and Gillmor Gangs that have built up. Those who, like me, stayed in bed this morning and listened to the ConCast were treated to a remarkable string of interesting stuff, none of...; Tags: Doc, Mike Arrington, Bloggercon; Blog posts 2006-06-25
BloggerCon: Core values and Mike Arrington rails against the trolls: BloggerCon: Core values and Mike Arrington rails against the trollsTherapy SessionMike is still making the mistake of trying to get people to feel sorry for him. Instead, he just ends up amplifying the perception that he is insecure about whether the criticism about his conflicts and thin skin are...; Tags: troll, CORE VALUES, Bloggercon, Mike Arrington; Discussion threads 2006-06-24
BloggerCon: Building bridges: BloggerCon: Building bridgesWomen are welcome, as long as theycheck their emotional crap at the door before joining in.; Tags: Gender and diversity, Building Bridges, Bloggercon, women; Discussion threads 2006-06-24

BloggerCon: Developers and users: BloggerCon: Developers and usersIs there a point to this blog?If so it's well hidden.; Tags: Bloggercon; Discussion threads 2006-06-24
BloggerCon: The user complaint session: BloggerCon: The user complaint sessionWheres the bit about blogging?Listening to this podcast quickly lets one forget that this is track in a blogging conference. I know Chris is advocating that users should use their blogs or otherwise to tell software developers what they need/don't need/other software woes, but this much...; Tags: Blogging, Tools & Techniques, software, Bloggercon, blog; Discussion threads 2006-06-23
BloggerCon IV lifts off: BloggerCon IV is underway, with a live webcast. I'm at the 'unconference,' which is being held at our CNET office in San Francisco. About a hundred blogger types have shown up so far for two days of discussion. Dave Winer, one of the original bloggers, is the force behind...; Tags: Bloggercon IV, Bloggercon; Blog posts 2006-06-23

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Meeting up with Dave Winer, in NYC: I met up with “a self-described male, native of New York, resident of Berkeley. 51 years old. 6 foot 2 inches tall. Etc. Having participated in the development of RSS,” tonight at the “Wollmann Lounge” in The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in downtown Manhattan.The “self-described...; Tags: discussion leader, Culture, Blogs; Blog posts 2006-12-28
Web 2.0 'community': Are 'comments' representative?: A new month, a new TechCrunch advisory of disgruntled users of Web 2.0 free services. Michael Arrington began November with “Top Digg Users Feeling Snubbed (see "Digg vs. Diggers?”), and he begins December with “Yahoo Gets Trashed By Users.” Just as with his Digg "controversy is interesting" post, Arrington’s Yahoo...; Tags: Television, TV, Amateur Content, Digg, Social Web, Culture, Yahoo, User-Generated Content, Yahoo! Inc., Social Media, Social Networking, Wikipedia; Blog posts 2006-12-03
Illegible Smile: I'm about to release the first half of the Bloggercon Gang, recorded at CNET during lunch of the first day, with Doc Searls, Dan Farber, and Jason Calaconis. Jason is a trip and a half, talking as he was then focused on the rollout of the new Netscape and the...; Tags: Attention, Beatles, Bloggercon Gang; Blog posts 2006-07-16
Notes from the tech conference underground: The extended spring tech conference season is beginning to wind down. I have done my share of time watching panels, keynotes and pitches, and hanging out in hallways and lobbys looking for fresh material, seeking out the strongest signals that portend what’s in store for the future. Based on absorbing...; Tags: Supernova; Blog posts 2006-07-05
Gnomedex: Bloggers, Senator Edwards convene in Seattle: On Friday and Saturday I'll be in Seattle at Gnomedex, which is hosted by Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome fame. Speakers discussion leaders at the event include many of the usual suspects from the blogosphere--Dave Winer, Marc Canter, Mike Arrington, Steve Rubel, Steve Gillmor, Susan Mernit, Halley Suitt, Robert Scoble and...; Tags: Edwards; Blog posts 2006-06-29
A Hamburger Today: A Hamburger TodayEmail me your ppt or KN, and I'll spruce it upI've looked at RoML's Keynote, Doc's and Hardt's. They're not you - at all. You need to come up with your own presentation style. I don't buy Doc's Powerpoint enthusiam. Maybe you can do what you need to...; Tags: patent, Gillmor Daily, Doc; Discussion threads 2006-06-25
BloggerCon: Dave talks about exiting the blogosphere: During the concluding wrap up for BloggerCon IV, unconference host Dave Winer ironically talked about his plan to cease blogging, not for the first time. Before he launched into his exit strategy he talked about reasons for blogging. "The only reason to blog is because you have something to...; Tags: blogging; Blog posts 2006-06-24
BloggerCon: Video blogging: Ryanne Hodson led the afternoon BloggerCon IV discussion on video blogging vlogging. She teed up the discussion as follows:Videoblogging as a medium is exploding and the community is growing exponentially. How we can continue to leverage the power of video on blogs for social change, art making, communication and education?...; Tags: video; Blog posts 2006-06-24
BloggerCon: Core values and Mike Arrington rails against the trolls: Mike Arrington of TechCrunch led the penultimate BloggerCon IV session on the topic of core values for bloggers (and podcasters + vloggers). The Doc Searls Docnography notes from the session are here, and the downloadable podcast is here.Mike started off the session with the statement that the blogosphere doesn't have...; Tags: blogger; Blog posts 2006-06-24
BloggerCon: Politics and blogging: The post-lunch session at BloggerCon IV was led by Lance Knobel, focusing on poltics and blogging. In the nature of an unconference like BloggerCon, the approach to the topic will be protean, not fixed. But I think the starting point for the politics discussion will be to examine whether and...; Tags: blogging; Blog posts 2006-06-24
BloggerCon: Building bridges: Elisa Camahort, representing Blogher, led the BloggerCon IV discussion on gender issues. Here is Elisa's description for the session.Numbers don't lie. Whether talking about Fortune 500 CEO chairs, media commentators or conference speaking rosters, women have been raising a stink for years about lack of representation. People are getting more...; Tags: women, Elisa Camahort, Building Bridges; Blog posts 2006-06-24
BloggerCon: Bloggers and money: John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at the Harvard Law School led a discussion about how to making money through blogging. Here is his lead in to the topic:If you are a blogger, how do you go about making some money from your work? One obvious answer is the classic...; Tags: blogger, blogging, blog; Blog posts 2006-06-24