The 2003 O’Reilly ETCON programme is live, and we’re a’coming.
The ETCON Brit-Pack (partial-list):
Also, from the New World, Butterfield, Hourihan, Kahle, Rein, Shirky, Rheingold, Gillmor, Weinberger, Johnson, and Alan “The Daddy” Kay!
Hopefully see you there!
Been meaning to write up something a little more considered than my raw notes on Doors7 [here, here, here and here] – and haven’t managed it what with all my comings and goings, laziness and, erm, work.
As a result I’ve been getting some feedback about the notes, and my use of the phrase “usefully-annoying” to sum up my experience there.
So, it was with a certain trepidation I clicked on the email I received from event head-honcho, John Thackara; but in the resulting email-tennis, I think we got to an understanding: I certainly came to refine my reaction to the event through doing so.
John has kindly allowed me to publish his email here, and I’ve published my reply – which comes as close as I think I’m going to get to a reflection on Doors7 in the time I’ve got right now. It’s kinda long, but I hope y’all enjoy it as much as I did briefly corresponding with John.
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Phillip Tabor was one of the highlights of Doors7 for me. His tract: “a space for half-formed thoughts” sounds like it could be describing the ‘blogosphere’, or at a lower-level – the internet’s ‘principle of equal suckitude’ [copyleft Cory Doctorow], or Richard Gabriel’s worse-is-better
[my emboldening]
“four attributes of a simulated space for half-formed thoughts:
1: Its metaphor is spatial, but its spatial character is not limited by the constraints of real space and physics
2: It contains flowing patterns that reflect incoming data about the world. But we dont just see these patterns: we sense them as sounds and vibrations; we feel them as wind in hair, taste on tongue, tension in muscles
3: Informational patterns are manifested in varying densities of this smoky space; and
4: We can sharpen the outlines of things, make them harder and clearer. But wed only do so when we feel our ideas are ready to coalesce
Vagueness is sometimes a virtue, and clarity is sometimes a vice.“
“The space for half-formed thoughts” is intriguing, and merits returning to and attempting to concretise it if only for the perversity of trying to do so… It could maybe yield MattW’s ‘the next thing’; indeed it may itself be the ‘next thing’.
» Doors7: Flow: Phillip Tabor: “A space for half-formed thoughts”
Raw notes from the afternoon day two of Flow
Speakers include:
I think I was starting to lose it by this point, as I notice I refer to a Buffy episode in the notes to Ms de Martalaere’s talk.
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Raw, unedited notes from day one of the event.
Speakers include:
Mix of what I was heaing and what I was thinking. I will try and revisit, tidy up and add hyperlinks + pix asap.
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Going to be jumping on a plane tomorrow to Amsterdam to attend Doors of Perception.
Hopefully there will be some wireless connectivity at the conference, otherwise I’ll be lugging my lump of titanum for nothing.
Anyway – if you’re attending, let me know either by mail, or leaving a comment below.
John Perry Barlow is speaking within sight of the mother of all parliaments tommorrow night:
“On an increasingly surveillanced planet, and in a world where intellectual property is owned by major corporations such as AOL/Time Warner, John Perry Barlow talks about politics and ownership.”
See you in the ICA bar before hand maybe.
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