short summary day one

greeting was good. keynote at beginning was interesting. the mapping of the blogosphere thing was cool visually... unfortunately not enough time to talk about how to use it... but definitely something i'll be thinking about the next couple of days.
status quo and predictions regarding german blogs: don't know. i mean definitely stuff i didn't know, but also maybe too much thinking going on about stuff that doesn't necessarily warrant it?
lunch at a place called "Spot", which is basically just a fancy kebab shop... but it was good and clean and fresh.
freedom on the net: the one thought i really took from that was "wtf?! they outsource censorship to private companies?! that sounds very dangerous!"
medienwelt im wandel (change of the world of media): trash vs. non-trash, paper vs. non-paper, boring, how is internet different for "normal" people & for journalists? what about research? who owns quality? who defines level of quality? is a journalist printed in a paper better?
then came the lecture on the Hypemachine... which was cool, because I hadn't ever really looked at it... and basically what he said was that it changed the interaction and distribution... but that those who wrote well woul succeed. which sounds comforting in its own way... and tied in nicely with the preceding lecture and discussion on who can claim their content is more valuable (what i'm going to call "qualitätshoheit").
then moot's lecture on 4chan. entertaining in its own way. not necessarily anything new. basically what he said was: 0-1 clicks + no registration = easy; no archiving + no registration + no restrictions = more freedom + creativity. what i thought was worth thinking about for a couple of moments was: he more or less breaks even with the site.
dinner: falafel platter. good.
after: boring panel on twitter. left. went to IBM panel on community within corporation blah. boring. left. sat in hall... he-who-brought-his-netbook surfed the web while i fell asleep. i really haven't slept well in 3 nights.
and after: Fettes Brot at the Kalkscheune. good. and we are home at 20 minutes past midnight. 3 g&t on my behalf. 4 beers and 1 Vodka-Coke on his. plus one more kebab for him and an order of fries for me! whoopee!
bed! now!
ooooh! brush teeth first.
good night all! lots of fun. will take computer tomorrow.