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Sunday, December 18, 2005
Remembering Frank Architetto 
| | So I hope this makes up for it. |
| | I only met Frank that once, but I knew he was a great soul as well as a pillar of the St. Anthony's Community. Wish I'd gotten to know him better. |
Just in time for Winter
Like Santa?
Backsynd
| | Syndicate summaries and stuff from Enerprise RSS Promotion, Shel Israel, Shel Israel, Tantek's Microformat's slides and conf summary, Frank Gruber, Renee Blodgett on Structured Blogging, Phillip Pearson on Structured Blogging (of which he is a Prime Author), Dan Farber on the same topic, sourcing Paul Kedrosky, (Bob Wyman, also involved, responds) Renee Blodget on yours truly, Dan Farber on Caterina Fake and Web 2.0 (a very interesting videoblog, with a pile of others on the right margin), Niall Kennedy on Searching the Syndisphere, David Utter on various items, David Berlind on Jonathan Schwartz... (more as I have time to fill them in) |
| | I missed the Syndicate conference in San Francisco this week, but I hear it was vendor-hell. Too many vendors prowling the halls and sessions. And attendance of some of the sessions was so bad that they had to be cancelled. |
| | I wasn't aware of the cancelled-session problem, and I was the conference chair and prowled the halls as much as anyone. As for vendor-hellishness, I thought it was less vendorish than these things usually are, and certainly less vendorish than the one in New York. |
| | My own retrospective on the show: |
| | - We had several target groups other than techies. These included publishers, broadcasters and PR, advertising and other marketing professionals. Thats's why we had four track sessions. But the show was in San Francisco, and turned out to have a plurality of techies among the attendees. The biggest turn-out I saw was for the Structured Blogging Announcement at the end of the day on Tuesday.
- We had too many people on panels from Technorati. That was my fault, not theirs. I know a lot of people there and it was too easy for me to fill gaps in panels with them. That's a process that goes on over several months, and I didn't keep good track of panel balance and stuff like that. So, apologies for that one.
- IDG did a terrific job at logistics and at pulling everything together, and even at making the tech stuff work (wi-fi Net connectivity for the rooms and wired Net connectivity for the stages were both pretty good, as this stuff goes... a few glitches, but no meltdowns).
- As a topic, syndication is almost impossibly broad and hot and new, at the same time. I think publishing, PR, advertising, broadcasting, podcasting and any number of other topics utterly changed by syndication each need their own conferences on the subject. I also think the conferences need to be smaller, less formal... unconferences, actually.
- Speaking of which, we missed the blogfather himself.
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| | We need to find ways to (a) satisfy the continuing market demand (because it's real and its there) for conferences-as-usual, while (b) offering alternatives that push their subjects forward and engage everybody who participates. We have a long way to go on that one. |
| | (Not really) finally, kudos to IDG for trying to do justice to the subject. Doug Gold and Shelley Ballarino did a great job organizing and managing the show, and will be missed (both are moving on to other work). Eric Norlin is now on board, and will be handling both Digital ID World and the next Syndicate. Eric rocks, and I'm sure he'll roll IDG and its trade show work in a good direction. |
Revelations
| | Follow the comments for more background and pix. |
A tale of a Wales or two
| | This Weekend, Britney says "It's over between me and my baby." |
How it's done
| | The point I was trying to make... I am proud of being on Blogspot mostly because I am showing the world (that exceedingly small slice of it that actually reads my shit anymore) that it is not necessary to use one of those ready-made templates they give you. Well no, actually you do use one -- pick something dead simple -- and then you hack the crap outta that sucker. That's what I did, yes. On the aforementioned Mystic Bourgeoisie. You bet. I made it so complicated that it took me a month to figure out how to post into it. But you pick these things up. Trust me. |
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