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Oh wow, I would love to help out with a "FutureCamp"! We really need a new World's Fair... but one that's decentralized and allows the best ideas for the future from around the world bubble up "through the network". Drop me a line -- obviously I need to recover a bit before tackling another event, but this one sounds really cool...
BarCampBlock hangover
So BarCampBlock was a good time, I heard some interesting conversations and met a couple neat people, and got a water bottle and t-shirt big enough for one of my kids. (I should have gone in on Friday night.) The one downside is that I keep thinking it's Monday night. The rest of the week is go...
Hey Ross, don't forget to mention the Fan Wiki: http://twitter.pbwiki.com... lots of other great resources and links to funny folk.
Twitter Tips the Tuna
On Wednesday, Twitter tipped the tuna. By that I mean it started peaking. Adoption amongst the people I know seemed to double immediately, an apparent tipping point. It hasn't jumped the shark, and probably won't until Steven Colbert covers this messaging of the mundane. As Twitter turns 1 o...
@Julian: We started speccing something like this out a recent Mashpit called RemoteParticipationInaBox. Truthfully it could be used both at the event itself and after the fact, but we realized the same problem: that our community needs tools to better leverage the great stuff that goes on at *camps (and other conferences).
@Ross: I think I've mostly gotten over my hurrumphness about Mashup Camp -- and really just want to keep focusing on the amazing successes that the emergent Bar Camp community has had.
It kind of dawned on me that my reaction is similar to the one that we experienced at Flock -- where by taking Firefox in a different direction and trying to make a business to sustain ourselves, we underwent a similar trial by fire from the Firefox community. All this hubbub seems a rite of passage when you fork what's seen as an open source community project and perhaps this behavior is one of the inherent social reenforcers that attempts to protect the original's integrity during such a split.
Breaking Down Camps
As the guy who pitched in for both BarCamp and MashupCamp, I should comment on the back and forth that happened this weekend. I spent a lot of time with David Berlind before MashupCamp talking about open space methodology and how camps work. Note Hat Tips at the footer of the wiki homepage: Fo...
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