Misc

Specifically, we want a community manager. You may feel free to speculate on what that means regarding announcements! About the only thing that I would add to the below is to point out that as far as we’re concerned, the community job is one of the most important at the company. It’s our public face to our most important people, actual users. So this is a really important job, if you’re interested; we’re determined to treat community as a core competency. Details on the job:

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Here I am walking around the show floor at Web 2.0 Expo, and I guess every possible combination of e, i, you, me, my, ster, and so on must have been taken. I have no idea what these companies all do, but check out these names: Yugma, Yoono, Zoho, Denodo, Venyo, Nexo, Astreya, Dekoh, Egnyte.

I guess ending in o is the new ending-in-r-without-preceding-vowel.

BTW, I give a lecture here tomorrow, all by my lonesome since Ben Cerveny got sick, plus I am on a panel. So I have to go finish my slides now.

Seth Raphael – MIT

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.

What does it mean? We have a very very tiny idea of what technology is here. Using your hands is a kind of technology.

Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

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Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

danah boyd, Doctoral Candidate, School of Information, University of California-Berkeley

Thank you so much for getting up at this hour. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Harry Potter, there are way more readers of HP than there are of BoingBoing or Digg combined. Muggles are those who are not wizards, those who do not have the magic.

Muggles have magic all around them… but don’t see it.

The talk is titled this way because it can be read on 2 levels — we’re here celebrating magic, because we are the wizards. But then we start to not think about Muggles, and mock them. Does that make us EEEeevil? What powers, and responsibilities do we have?
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I am an information junkie. I admit it. I have 75 RSS feeds set up in my reader as a sidebar in my browser (Sage in Firefox). I have, after much much pruning, reduced my bookmark set to only 35 sites here at work (at home, it is maybe 5 times bigger than that). If I am honest with myself, they turned into RSS feeds, mostly. Worse, every day I visit at least four message forums and scan through recent posts.

I am also on IM and email. I hit the news sites, like CNN or BBC, usually three or four times a day. I get both Time and Entertainment Weekly delivered at home, and actually read them cover to cover (usually on a two week delay). Plus, I get two or three other magazines that were given as gifts.

It’s easy to get into information overload mode.

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