I’ve come across to Reboot this year again. This conference was probably the one that triggered by career rethinking that resulted in me leaving my long term employer to go try something different. The same thing happened with Nicole, so there was definitely something in the air last year 😉 The theme this year is […]
Talk Radio
Via Nicole, I see that the sound recordings of many of the Reboot talks are now available in the Internet Archive. Once I’ve downloaded them, I need to work out if it is worth turning the presentation files into jpgs (to put on my Zen PMC) so that I can listen and watch the presentation […]
Ben Hammersley – reboot
One of the memorable talks of the second day was Ben Hammersley‘s talk on Ettiquette and the Singularity. It was entertaining, not just because of the “men’s unbifurcated garment” that was being worn, but for the enthusiasm of the speech. There was a lot of comments made about the speech in various places, (take a […]
Home again
Finally got home after a not too bad trip. It was great to land early, and then spend the 20 minutes we’d gained wiating for somewhere to park the plane. Went along to a good very pleasant breakfast meet this morning, meeting even more new people. The photos of the breakfast, plus my wander around […]
Dave Weinberger – reboot7
The Natural Shape of Knowledge He’s startng off looking at the history of (Western) knowledge, where knowledge was of the real world, when Aristotle was setting out the standard. Classigfication, to order knoweldge started at this point, when orgnaisation was thought about in physical terms. “principles of organisation mirror the limitations of the physical” ie […]
Lee Bryant – Reboot 7
Comments on social tagging This talk is about some possible future developments for social tagging. 1. User-organised news. Working with user-tagged BBC news stories, linking to external sites, user-driven related stories. This works through Backstage, allowing people to do things with the BBC content. Tagging works in a similar way to Flickr tagging, allowing you […]
Skype: Malthe Sigurdsson – reboot
“An application you use to talk through the internet. For free. Forever” (or at least until the next thing arrives!) It’s about enhacing comms, not just replacing. They call it a small big company, with around 160 people in 15 countries. They use a wiki for company knowledge They want to maintain diversity, avoiding white […]