Ross Mayfield discusses the future shape of trade events and the impact of real-time blogging, Wikis, in-room chat, etc.
As with many of Ross's postings, it is a vehicle for quoting himself, but self-promotion can be forgiven when the content is good ;-)
My main doubt about all this is that the fastest and best typists with knowledge of a dozen social software applications will always dominate proceedings, but skill with tools is not indicative of the value of one's contributions to an event or a panel. Sometimes, reflection and rumination can produce netter quality analysis than high-speed blogging and real-time chat.
fair point, most of my posts these days are sharing personal experiences.
No doubt that the best analysis is thought through, but on-the-fly insight provides a richer event and provides great data points for future analysis.
Thanks Ross. I have enjoyed your ongoing coverage of soc.soft-enabled events and the way they are changing - it is very valuable. I wish I knew where you get your energy from!
I sometimes fear that all this real-time stuff is creating barriers to participation for thinkers and turning us into typists with A.D.D., but perhaps it is about specialisation: the wifi typists can create an ecology of source material that second wave thinkers can process. It's all very exciting stuff, anyway.
BTW, good luck with Socialtext - we are watching you guys and we hope you achieve the success you clearly deserve.