Some Vlog Posts from Blogher Meetup

The nonprofit technology social calendar was packed full this evening with events happening all over Harvard Square, from the Symposium on Social Architecture co-sponsored by Corante and the Berkman Center to the 501 C3Tech Club gathering to a Blogher Meetup!   If you want to find out more about the conference, read the tagged blog posts from the conference here and the nonprofit technology spin here.  (Be sure to read Jon Garfunkel's post, The Yin To Social Software's Yang, contextualizing social software,  a must read.   

After some logistical problems (events happening at the same time and the bar being closed for a private book tour party), I was lucky to finally meet up with a few bloghers at Smile Thai, including Mary Hodder, Lisa Stone, and Liz Lawley as well as others like Kevin Marks, who attended the Symposium while simultaneously video streaming and podcasting a presentation for a conference in San Jose, and the Cerado co-founders.

So, I went online to piece together snippets that I heard at dinner about Symposium with blog posts.  Probably not quite as good as being there.   David Weinberger hosed his laptop and apparently after cursing on his blog and breaking the "shit" and "fuck" barrier face-to-face in the room (!@#$% laptop) went on to deliver a brilliant keynote speech, including slides that had HTML tags with instructions like <A> Talk About Tagging Here </A>.  Nothing like having a good sense of humor to ease a bad situation.  Here's a live blog of what he said and here. 

Kaliya Hamlin (who I saw at a dinner for Planetworks on Sunday night) was on a panel called "Is Business Ready for Social Software."

I heard a new phrase, "Tagsterbation."   When you just tag something for yourself to find.  ( I couldn't find a blog that would give the context.)

Liz Lawley facilitated a session called "Social Software: Lens or Mirror" reported on by David Weinberger.  Weinberger noted that "she points out the the hostility toward conversation built into the architecture of this room."  During dinner, I heard another term  "Con Camp," which I think meant something about interaction design for physical spaces . . .

So, here's a few video clips

Elevator Speech Series:  Kevin Marks, Principal Enigneer from Technorati

Stair Speech Series:  Lisa Stone, Blogher

What do Social Software Architects think about bird flu?

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Comments

[Lisa Stone]

Beth, what a fun evening.

One fix: Instead of linking me again, your last link is meant to be the brilliant "Chicken Licking Good" video you took in the bar: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/files/birdflu.wmv.

SO funny. This last video is Daily Show worthy, woman.