day three

what a day!
first: caught the end of "social media in the mid-east" and then heard the panel on "axis? what axis?" with Esra'a Al Shafei (of mideastyouth.com) and Mary C. Joyce of the Obama campaign. very interesting and moving (especially the social media in the mid-east part).
this was followed by Jimbo Wales giving a talk on Wikipedia and Wikia... which was sometimes a little boring because he was so to speak preaching to the choir: i'm guessing most people there knew what wikipedia is and how it works. basically it was more of an advertisement for wikia. but it was good and partly inspiring.
talking about inspiring and moving: cory doctorow's speech on the internet, free culture, three-strikes-you're-out, creativity, net-neutrality, and lots more.
then we ran and caught a small lecture on changing German copyright. Dr. Till Kreutzer wrote his doctoral thesis on that and had some good observations to make and his proposal was to separate the protection of rights of the creator (composer, writer, musician) from the protection of rights of the producer (record company, publishing house).
lunch
then a panel on political blogs in Germany... which was ok.
last: panel "new european public in the net?"... good.
getting a cold... so, after walking to the location for the after-party we decided to go home, go to bed. also: we need to catch the train at 10 to 8AM...
conclusion: good but exhausting day and especially with the onset of a cold it is time to get some rest.

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.