BloggerCon II Weblog - Celebrating the art and science of weblogs, April 17 at Harvard Law School.

Permanent link to archive for 3/21/04. Sunday, March 21, 2004

First grid posting

Here's the first very rough draft of the grid for BloggerCon II on April 17.

Experience has shown that people will take this the wrong way, as cast in concrete, and will make plans based on it, and will be very upset when it changes. It will change. It's for discussion purposes only.

Now, with that in mind -- what are we missing? Last time we had great sessions for blogging in Medicine and the Law. Are there enough people interested in these sessions this time?

We have a few other confirmed discussion leaders who I haven't assigned sessions yet. Lots of white space on the schedule. Thinking of having a Fat Man session again in the last slot. What do people think of that?

I didn't schedule an Aggregators session since there hasn't been all that much movement there since the last meeting. My feeling is that they can be covered, to the extent that people want to, in the Infrastructure session.

Suggestions, ideas, feedback?

# Posted by Dave Winer on 3/21/04; 5:07:41 PM - --

BloggerCon essay: Merge news and reality television?

"At any time the person being interviewed, say on Meet The Press, could press a button and the show would switch into Reality Mode. In this mode, the reporter would have to stick to asking questions about things that are really happening. In this mode, anything the subject said wouldn't be scrutinized for hints of reality sneaking in, in fact the opposite would happen, he would lose points if he said something clueless or obviously untrue." More.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 3/21/04; 4:15:12 PM - --