I really enjoyed Wikimania, but it felt distinctly different than last year. A big part of it was personal. The conference was held in Cambridge, my home for four years, so the location itself was familiar and uninteresting. I was only there for three days, whereas last year I came early for Hacking Days, where [...]
The highlight of my Wikimania experience came at the party on Saturday night, when Ross Mayfield and I won the Web 1.0 VC Pitch competition, judged by Mitch Kapor, Brewster Kahle, and Jack Herrick. The pitch? Ross’s first startup, which at one point had a market cap of $1 billion and a fat $60,000 in [...]
Several folks asked me on Saturday what I thought about the conference, and I kept saying, “It’s been great, except I haven’t had any interesting conversations about Wikis.” That changed in an unexpectedly generative way on Saturday afternoon, resulting in a new little cooperative effort we’re calling WikiOhana. (KZ1) At Thursday night’s conference party, [...]
On Saturday morning, I had the pleasure of attending talks given by two very important contributors to my field. About a year and a half ago, shortly after I first met Katrin Verclas, Katrin started telling me, “You’ve got to read Yochai Benkler.” I’m pretty sure that she ended 90 percent of our subsequent conversations [...]
The WikiSym 2006 program is set. Guess who’s keynoting (with Doug Engelbart). That’s right, I’ll be talking Wiki philosophy and showing off some HyperScope goodness. I’ll also be moderating an interactive session on the Future of Wikis, featuring the other WikiSym keynoters (Ward Cunningham, Angela Beesley, Mark Bernstein) and the illustrious Sunir Shah. (KY0) [...]
Jonathan Cheyer has joined the blogosphere. In addition to being a great guy, a friend, and sometime basketball partner, he’s a longtime member of the Collaboration Collaboratory, a core HyperScope contributor and the Open Source Community evangelist at Solid. And as the tech lead for the Computer History Museum‘s NLS/Augment Restoration Project, he’s indisputably the [...]
Chris Dent and I were chatting about my recent forays into David Allen‘s Getting Things Done, which led to this classic line from Chris: (KXN) Someday someone, maybe one of us, will poop out a “collaboration requires good personal information hygiene” thing. (KXO) Consider this post a poop. (KXP) When we founded [...]
(KXK) Phoebe Ayers and Samuel Klein show off their Wikimania T-shirts sporting Free Links (bah!). Then again, it’s better than Sta Ff. (That one’s for you, Pete.) Photo courtesy of Betsy Devine. (KXL)
Day one is over. Brain is overloaded. Very tired. Attending conference during day/evening, then working late into night — bad. Law school dorms with no air conditioning in Cambridge in August — also bad. (KWO) Still, much to share. And amazingly enough, I will — at least a bit. There’s something about this conference [...]
Two important OpenID developments to announce. First, there are a bunch of $5K bounties available for folks who integrate OpenID into Open Source projects. You heard me right — you can get some cash for doing something you probably want to do anyway. Second, Kaliya Hamlin announced an OpenID developer day in Berkeley next Thursday, [...]
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