I just caught a lecture/talk on line from one of my former profs Stephen Regoczei.
Here.
In the talk he wonders around issues of saving the world and the sharing of ideas and concepts - and how its done.
The conference was about:
The Zap Your PRAM Conference is a gathering of creative professionals, academics, and intriguing people from around the world interested in design, the web, and emerging technologies. It's a conference to relax and discuss current issues in technology, business, and whatever else comes up. A kind of think-tank, conference, have-a-conversation, type of gathering.
This stuff is what I am all about. This is what keeps me interested in technology. The power of the web isn't in the software. The power of the web isn't in the machines or the wires that connect them together. The power of the Web is people - people sharing ideas - people connecting - people changing the world - and saving it.
The talk also focused on blogging and the power it has. Two notable quotes:
"b'logs [sic] are an oral artform propagated through writing"
"b'logs [sic] are the un-edited personal statements released to the world"
There was also a cameo by Dave Winer at the end of the talk. He makes some interesting observations about the drawbacks of blogging as a medium - how no matter how 'real' you want to be - you can still get crucified for it. Google "I write shitty software" and you can see how true this is.
Still - being real and saying it as it is or as you see it really does make blogs interesting. To change the world we need more voices to be heard. No where else can so many people from so many different places be heard than on the web.
Posted by andre at February 5, 2004 01:42 AM