Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture at Forrester Consumer Forum
I’ve written several times before on Jenkins – he’s a major guru I think of the new media shift. If you haven’t read Convergence Culture go do so now. Today he’s one of the keynotes at the Forrester...
View ArticleAn Embarrassment of Riches
One of the great things about living and working in the Boston area (other than a few significant sports teams) is the prevalence of some many truly great universities. This is a benefit not only for...
View ArticleOpening Remarks, Futures of Entertainment II
MIT Convergence Culture Consortium Futures of Entertainment II - http://convergenceculture.org/futuresofentertainment/2007/program/index.html Opening Comments: Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green Henry Jenkins...
View ArticleLiveblogging Futures of Entertainment 2 – Mobile Panel
This was an absolutely fantastic panel – best I’ve seen in the last year certainly on mobile, probably overall. This might mean my notes are a bit more scattered – but there are lots of interesting...
View ArticleFutures of Entertainment II
Other liveblogs from FoE2. In fact there are so many good ones I’m not going to try to keep up – I’ll add some thoughts later about the conference as a whole. Convergence Culture Consortium Blog FoE2...
View ArticleLiveblogging Futures of Entertainment 2 – Metrics and Measurement Panel
Metrics and Measurement – 1-3:30 Panelists: Bruce Leichtman, Leichtman Research Group Stacey Lynn Schulman, Turner Broadcasting Maury Giles, GSD&M Idea City Jim Nail, Cymfony Description: As media...
View ArticleDrupalcon Boston 2008
Looking forward to the upcoming Drupalcon: Drupalcon Boston 2008 takes place from March 3, 2008 to March 6, 2008 at the Boston Convention and Expo Center. There will also be a Drupal Code Sprint on...
View ArticleROFLCon day one: funny, but not insightful
One of the major challenges of any conference on humor is that there are different modes for humor and analysis and in many ways they conflict. You can stay inside the humor, enjoy the meme, and...
View ArticleClay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
You may have seen my link to a transcript of this talk if you follow my ma.gnolia feed or johneckman.com. Now (via LaughingSquid) you can watch the video. It’s Clay Shirky’s keynote at Web 2.0 Expo in...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0 Conference Pass
I don’t normally cross-promote heavily across the multiple places I blog, but this one seemed worthwhile. From my blog at Optaros.com: “Enterprise 2.0 Free Conference Pass” At the upcoming Enterprise...
View ArticleEnterprise Portals, Collaboration, and the Web
I’m in San Diego this week for the Enterprise3 conference, which the organizers describe thusly: Enterprise3 consists of three separate, but related, components: Enterprise Web and Information...
View ArticleIgnite Boston 3
Update: 14 of the presentation slide decks are available at slideshare. Last night was the third Ignite Boston, at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. Ignite is an O’Reilly Media sponsored series of...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0 Conference – Social Bookmarking and Tagging
One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0: Sun’s Project SocialSite
One of the entries in the launchpad competition today was Sun Microsystem’s Project SocialSite. It’s part of the larger Glassfish project, and uses Apache Shindig as an OpenSocial container – they...
View ArticleWeb Content 2008 Chicago
I’m in Chicago today (and yesterday) for Web Content 2008. It’s a nice, smaller conference – about 150 attendees or so, with very strong content (as you might expect) and good opportunities to meet,...
View ArticleWeb Content 2008 Presentation
Wednesday was day two of Web Content 2008, and I presented in the afternoon on the rise of user-contributed content and community, and the impact that’s had on content management. I had thought about...
View ArticleSXSW 2009 Panels Proposed
Last week, while I was on vacation meeting my new nieces and attending my 20th year high school reunion, the Panel Picker for SXSW 09 went live. Although voting by prospective attendees is only “about...
View ArticleLinkedIn Gets Events
(via Bokardo on Twitter and the LinkedIn Blog) Building on the momentum of all the (OpenSocial based) applications they added a few weeks back, LinkedIn is now rolling out events. In this video,...
View ArticleOpen Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston
Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference – “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” It’s Thursday, December 4th, from...
View ArticlePolitics and Poetics of DeCSS
NYU’s Gabriella Coleman‘s talk from the Open Video conference on the way in which DVD Jon and DeCSS brought together code and speech in relation to freedom: video platform video management video...
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