Comments on: social vs. socialised

By: Broadband and Me

Broadband and Me — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:29:56 +0000

Our Social World

Our Social World is now one attendee bigger, as I have managed to find time to get there. I notice a lot of talk regarding negative comments abound however I think this is a bit premature. I’m going to wait…

By: Paul Goodison

Paul Goodison — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:20:28 +0000

Looking forward to going. I believe the real value of this is networking and to that end I am also looking forward to meeting Hugh in the flesh. Not to mention I am also interested in his talk and most people consider me at least part geek.

By: Ian Fenn

Ian Fenn — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:24:16 +0000

Suddenly I’m considered an ‘individual’. Never a truer word said.
Hugh, see you there — I’m looking forward to it.
All the best,
–
Ian

By: Ian Fenn

Ian Fenn — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:21:21 +0000

If you’re considered a ‘corporate’, the fee is

By: Matt Freestone

Matt Freestone — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:13:09 +0000

Hugh — I’m in Cambridge and it sounds quite interesting but:
1 — it’s on a weekday and I don’t have much holiday left
2 — it’s

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:49:57 +0000

You can meet people at the geek dinners and other less formal events. I meet people by networking with them online and then moving it offline. The extra cost of these bigger conferences is going into the presentation and delivery of content, so I’d say it’s a pretty big part of the larger conferences. If it was all about meeting people, there’d be a lot more geek dinners and the like The most productive extra curricular activity I went to was a “conference” in a pub(!) full of SEO experts

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:00:31 +0000

I don’t go for the content, Dennis. I go to meet people.
(A) It’s a lot of fun and (B) a lot of business is starting to get done at these things. At least for me.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:54:25 +0000

I did post a number of perfectly valid reasons why this is not such a great idea at http://www.bazaarz.com/archives/2005/08/our_social_worl.php. And the fact I live offshore wouldn’t stop me coming…if the content was compelling enough. And it isn’t.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:57:20 +0000

While history of blogging seems dull at first, it was quite a presentation to listen to and Ben is fun to watch. You could give it a listen through the reboot recordings of that special session.
I can’t answer the question if you are intersted in the social impacts of daily internet life, but the question put up by that single presentation still “haunt” me two months later.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:59:03 +0000

I run a funded business in the RSS sector in the UK and I'm not going for a number of reasons. it's down South and I can't be arsed, I'm too busy working on cool stuff to go, and the content sounds painfully dull .. does anyone who knows their arse from their elbow need a "brief history of blogging" or "how marketeers are going to have to act more like techies"? These are topics for newbies and marketeers rather than techies or people on the cutting edge. The problem is, the people reading blogs like yours ARE the techies, industry geeks, and people on the cutting edge. This conference is clearly for people who have no idea about the topic or have heard "a little" about it. That's the problem with conferences.. they're not for the hardcore. Up with geek dinners instead.

By: Johnnie Moore's Weblog

Johnnie Moore's Weblog — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:51:32 +0000

Our Social World

Hugh talks about why people aren’t flocking to Our Social World. I agree with him that (to quote the Open Space mantra) the people who come are the right people. I also have a feeling that blogging is just starting…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:51:27 +0000

For true hilarity, read this interview with Saatchi & Saatchi's UK chairman/CEO Lee Daley on the "future" of advertising. It contains more meaningless buzzwords per square inch than maybe anything I've read--and NOTHING about how technology lets marketers l-i-s-t-e-n to and converse with customers. http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/08/26/lee.daley.transcript/

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:44:10 +0000

Barry what a large gaping void there is! In my past life of running a UK based business I would never have associated, business people = poncey ponytail set.
I guess its what happens when you cut yourself off in Soho.

By: james governor

james governor — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:25:06 +0000

dont patronise brits?
this from dennis howlett, a man that can’t bear to live in the UK because the weather is shit and the liquor is expensive.
give over mr howlett — you aren’t a Brit any more, you’re a European…
my reason for probably not coming is pretty simple. the list is same old same old. i know the thinking of the headliners. i might come to see them perform live, but i already have the album…

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:21:15 +0000

Ha. The poncy pony tail set embracing geek chic. As if that will ever happen.
More fun just watching them being consigned to the dustbin of history.