December 7, 2005

les blogs update

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I am wri­ting this from an inter­net cafe in Paris. Les Blogs ended yes­ter­day, and it was a huge suc­cess.
Well done, Loic and Co, for put­ting on such a great show.
You can read what the other atten­dees are saying about it here on Tech­no­rati. And you can see the pho­tos here on Flickr.
The high­light of the show for me was Ben Hammersley’s ama­zing speech:

8 Ideas That Will Revo­lu­tio­nize the 21st Cen­tury (and blog­ging isn’t one of them).
1. Infor­ma­tion wants to be free (vs. copy­right).
2. Zero dis­tance (vs. bor­ders).
3. Mass ama­teu­ri­sa­tion (vs.censorship).
4. More is much more. (vs. net­work bloc­king).
5. True names (vs. iden­dity cards & data­ba­ses ).
6. Viral beha­viour (vs. more net­work bloc­king).
7. Everything is per­so­nal (vs. everything is trac­ka­ble).
8. Ubi­qui­tous com­pu­ting (no privacy). 

What? Blog­ging isn’t on the list?
No Silly, says Ben, blog­ging isn’t one of them, blog­ging is all of them.
[NB: Oli­ver Thyl­man has a nice synop­sis of the speech here.]
Any­way, he’s wri­ting a book about it, and I can’t wait to read it:

Octet: The Eight Big Ideas You Need to Unders­tand in the 21st Century

I catch the plane home this eve­ning. Until next year!
UPDATE: A nice wee synop­sis of Les Blogs from David Sifry, who I enjo­yed mee­ting a lot.

4 Responses to “les blogs update”

  1. Wirearchy says:
    December 7, 2005 at 6:52 pm

    How Will This Affect the Work­place of 2010 ?

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  2. SMLXL says:
    December 8, 2005 at 9:05 am

    Sony get their knuc­kles wrapped

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  3. frosty says:
    December 9, 2005 at 12:42 am

    Infor­ma­tion wants to be anthropomorphized.

  4. Antonio Tombolini says:
    December 9, 2005 at 5:41 pm

    mmmhhh… Ben’s 1st point is:
    > 1. Infor­ma­tion wants to be free (vs. copy­right).
    Ok. What about his foo­ter here: http://www.benhammersley.com/ ? Yes, you guess it: a real, regu­lar, sad “copy­right by Ben Ham­mers­ley”. Yes. Can’t trust a guy like this one.