Back from BlogTalk Reloaded
Back from BlogTalk Reloaded a few days ago, where I enjoyed a lot of interesting talks and presentations[1] about social software and weblogging, especially :
- danah boyd’s keynote and especially remarks about relations between users and the way social networking websites are currently developped (hacks, reaction to users demands …);
- talks by Lee Bryant / Headshift and by Rod Smith / IBM about social software and use of open APIs and “Web 2.0″ technologies as AJAX, Google Maps … in corporate contexts;
- social aspects of blogging; even if I attended the conference mostly for its technical and corporate talks, it as a good opportunity to get different views about its impacts;
- monday evening meeting, and discussions with zeroK, Ton Zijlstra, bazaar guys, and more. A nice way to know more about activites and interests of everyone;
- Matt Mullenweng’s keynote. I was wondering since the program was published what what this “Jazz” about: new API ? Framework ? … No, simply music. Nice jazzmen quotes and pictures to describe the life of a software project - and maybe life itself ? The kind of keynote to relax after lunch !
Regarding my talk - apologizes for the english 
- what I felt is that Semantic Web still fears people (especially using and maintaining ontologies / knowledge bases), but I hope attendees were interested in the approach. I also got this feeling during SIOC presentation (.ppt) by Uldis and John, especially regarding the questions about microformats and SIOC differences and advantages. John wrote some ideas about creating links between both communities.
So, thanks again to Thomas, Jan and BlogTalk organizers for these two days.
Just a few suggestions:
- let speakers choose between different formats for their talks. While some presentations are indeed more appropriate for a 10 minutes talk and a debate, others are better with a more formal talk and Q/A way;
- proceedings. Even if a book is planned, it would be nice to get the papers at the beginning of the conference;
- shirts, please provice blogtalk shirts for us geeks next year
Finally, for those that didn’t attend, there’s a lot of stuff to look at on BlogTalk wiki, Technorati, Flickr …
Notes
[1] All talks where video-recorded and uploaded a few minutes after, and are still available on the program page.
BlogTalk Reloaded
I’ll flight to Vienna tomorrow morning to attend BlogTalk Reloaded.
My talk about “Folksonomies, Ontologies and Corporate Blogging” is planned to be monday at noon, while Uldis should present the one dedicated to SIOC (co-writen with John[1] and myself) on thurdsay morning.
There should be a lot of interesting talks during these two days, I’m especially waiting for the ones about social software in companies, presentation of the Google-Data API, but also about social aspects of blogging. Well, I also hope to meet new people, so if you’re frequently reading this blog, just come to say hello.
Notes
[1] Who recently made different SIOC Guides
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Les Blogs 2.0
Le 2nde conférence "Les Blogs" aura lieu à Paris les 5 et 6 Décembre prochain. La journée "Around The Blog", initialement prévue le 11 Octobre, fusionne avec celle-ci.
Journée “Around the Blog”
Le 11 octobre prochain à Paris aura lieu la journée "Around the blog".
Atour d’aspects plus "classiques" des blogs (podcasting, RSS …), une partie sur l’utilisation des blogs en entreprise, avec une intervention du responsable des relations publiques d’IBM Belgique/Luxembourg sur le sujet (d’autres speakers en attente).
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