OK, tonight I'm having you guys round to my place so we can blog the DigitalID World conference blogging.
AKMA, David Weinberger, Chris Locke, Denise Howell, Frank Paynter and Doc Searls among many others are blogging the conference in Boulder as we speak.
I suspect, like me, you might feel majorly left out so the next best thing is to have a communal blog about their blogging. I have a thin-pipe 56k WiFi network locked, loaded and good to go, there's some beer in the fridge, porridge a plenty and there's some good stuff on the telly tonight just in case the conference blogging reports slow down. My place around 7pm GMT. Bring your own bottle.
7:04pm - OK, there's this guy sitting in a navy blue Volvo estate outside my house and I think he's trying to get onto the network.
7:09pm - The Volvo guy is still there.
7:11pm - Me and the Volvo guy look on as Frank Paynter just blogged this
Recession drives creativity... Martha Rogers was named by Business 2.0 as one of the nineteen most important business Gurus of all time in October of 2001. Chris Locke is in the top 50 business thinkers list. Martha Rogers is kind of a... dare I say it? Hell, she's a babe. [Sandhill Trek - On The Road]
7.19pm - One of my neighbours has asked the Volvo guy to move on before he calls the police. Bummer, bet they don't have that problem in Boulder. Doc Searls just blogged some more about Martha Rogers presentation:
Martha Rogers: Relationships are two way. Quotage:When I hear somebody say 'we're establishing a relationshi between our brand and our customers... I don't think so. Brands are untouchable icons.Relationshps are all different, iterative, have ongoing benefits, have a context that changes over time, and generate trust.What experience should I expect if I'm a customer?random acts of kindness by customer-friendly are not the same as customer centricity. The key interact, remember, respond.Every 20 years, the cost of processing a single bit of information declines by a factor of 1000.The more effort the customer invests, the greater their stake in making the relationshp works. Going to a competitor is reinventing the relationship.In the 20th century, competitve advantage came from product and brand. In the 21st it comes from information.Focusing on relationship equity will refocus the businesss on people.I'm with her on all this, but I hate the term "equity" here. Like "human capital," it cheapens itself. What makes relationships valueable is their pricelessness.More quotage:Reciprocity: do for customers what you want them to do for you. For example, full disclosure, when it's possible, provides immunity.She just asked how many people in the audience own a TiVo. Not that many hands went up. At Digital Hollywood, nearly all the hands went up.88% of ads in TiVo households don't get watched.The goal of a market economy itslelf is to facilitate signals from customers to supliers... The problem is that moving that signal up the chain is like the game of "telephone." [The Doc Searls Weblog]
7.28pm - The Volvo guy has finally gone. It's just me here alone blogging this momentous event.
7.31pm - The Volvo guy is back but can't get logged back onto the WiFi network for some reason. I'll go out and speak with him. Meanwhile, AKMA just blogged this on Martha:
Martha Rogers?s presentation was generally quite convincing; she invited us to think about the issues involved in digitial ID, privacy,... [AKMA's Random Thoughts]
7.37pm - A teenage kid from around the corner is trying to hack into my WiFi LAN. He's sending me messages challenging me to a game of Quake 3.
Digital Right Management: David Weinberger is moderating a panel on digital rights management. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]
7.39pm - Volvo guy, if you are reading this how many sugars to you take in your coffee? Just hold up your fingers through the window.
7.40pm - The conference reports seemed have slowed down, they must be having lunch or something. I wonder what's on the menu? Smoked salmon perhaps.
What we're currently looking at.
7.43pm - They're back, that was a quick lunch, (actually perhaps it was just a coffee break, I wonder if we'll notice the effects of caffeine in their blogging? Frank Paynter just blogged this:
Digital Rights Management Panel
Brad the Microsoft guy, Ken the Internet2 guy, Bala the privacy management guy, Denise the litigator. David Weinberg - moderator.Denise: DRM is a system of technological protection measures that are used to control access to digital material. Pay for use model. [Sandhill Trek - On The Road]
7.47pm - I'm over at Doc's looking at some photos he took of the conference delegates having lunch.
7.50pm - I'm feeling sorry for Volvo guy so I print off a screen dump of Doc's blog so he can look at the photos too, I'm holding them up against the bedroom window....the Volvo guy just smiled and gave me a thumbs up.
7.53pm - AMKA just blogged this:
David's Right, Mainly
David Weinberger is chairing the DRM panel, which includes Brad, the Microsoft guy; Ken, the open-source Internet2 guy; Bala, the... [AKMA's Random Thoughts]
8.03pm - The conference blog hasn't changed for over 10 minutes.
8.07pm - Nope, not a dickie bird. A watched blog never posts I guess. Volvo guy has just started his engine, it's getting cold outside.
8.46pm - Nothing blogged at the conference for nearly an hour. What are they doing? Volvo guy left about 15 minutes ago.
8.51pm - Hah! Life at last, but Doc sounds like he's not enjoying himself, says he's bored. He should try sitting staring at a static webpage for an hour ffs:
No wonder it blows. David Weinberger's DRM panel is up. Denise is on it, so she can't blog it (at least not now). Eliott Noss is sitting next to me. He just told me he's seen ten panels just like this one. Me too. I'm tuning it out. Hate to say it. My ears go on when I hear David's or Denise's voices, but otherwise I'm elsewhere.Woop! Brad Brunnel, the Microsoft guy, just said something about "You, the consumer..." Ack. Thought: the whole DRM conversation is about prophylaxis. It's putting a condom on the consumer. Not pretty. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
7.55pm - Hey the Volvo guy just got back, looks like he's been to McD's, I can see him with a large drinks container. Yes, he's drinking out of it with a straw, he must have been hungry. Shame he missed Doc's post there.
8.59pm - Just received some spam from someone called FarmGirl, entitled "You know you need it". Deleted without opening.
9.01pm - Steve Himmer is doing coverage of my conference coverage coverage.
9.03pm - AKMA & Doc a few minutes ago. I seriously think that if they read this right now and then read Steve Himmer's coverage that the world would just explode instantaneously. It would indeed be very cool if they blogged this at the conference, but I'd rather die an old man thanks very much. How about you Steve?
9.07pm - WOW! AKMA just blogged me blogging his blogging - I can't believe we're not all space dust. How can this be?
Makes You Think
One of the remarks that Craig Bundie made in his talk this morning was something to the effect that ???computers aren???t the problem; connectivity makes computers a problem.??? Did you get that, Gary? [AKMA's Random Thoughts]
9.07pm - Wait a minute, all my clocks have frozen at 9.07pm.
9.49pm - Wha, where am I? What? Wow, so that's what a wormhole looks like. Anyway, Denise Howell just blogged War & Peace while I was orbiting Pluto: Saturn's rings looked really nice tonight.
Chat With Nat
Nathan Torkington with O'Reilly blogged our DRM panel and will have an MP3 of it available at that link this afternoon. I had the greatest chance meeting with Nat before the panel. It went like this. He and I were clustered with our laptops by the registration table, plugging in to the powerstrips there. My purpose at the time was to jump on to iChat and hook up with Kevin Marks, stranded back in California. Kevin was going to walk me through using Quicktime Broadcaster to send him the audio of the panel. We figured out that wouldn't work because of NAT issues with the IP address assigned by the WiFi (I'm merely pretending to know what that might mean). Though the WiFi NAT was less than cooperative, the Nat next to me was just the opposite. While I was iChatting away with Kevin, I was real world chatting with Nat, who when he learned the predicament offered to make an MP3 of the panel and email Kevin. Perfect! Okay, but not all. Logged off iChat, checked email. Kevin had sent me the video from the O'Reilly OS X conference, of Dan Gillmor and others discussing DRM. (Kevin has been absolutely great at keeping me up to speed on the latest permutations and commentary in this area.) By this time, Nat and I were past the "who are you with?" part, so I told him, Hey, Kevin sent me this O'Reilly conference DRM video. And Nat said, Hey, I took that O'Reilly conference DRM video! We proceeded to impress the hell out of ourselves by transferring the video and our contact information from computer to computer over the WiFi via iChat and Rendezvous.The panel talk itself went well I think, particularly David's organization and focus, but I'm admittedly biased. We had too little time and too much to try to cover. I'll try to blog my notes and sources soon. [Bag and Baggage]
10.10pm - Well that's it for Europe's coverage of the conference coverage. It's been a good night, patchy at times but altogether worthwhile. Plus I made a new friend in Volvo Guy. night all.
11.13pm - Whoa, this coverage of the conference coverage finally made it onto the conference coverage and I'm now blogging this right...now....as I type. It's like that scene in Spaceballs the movie when they play the video tape of Spaceballs the movie to work out what happens next by fast forwarding the tape. Is it a bad thing when blood starts to come out of your ears?......:
Welcome to the real world, Neo
Gary Turner: 7.37pm - A teenage kid from around the corner is trying to hack into my WiFi LAN. He's sending me messages challenging me to a game of Quake 3. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
Ngghhh!
DARK HELMET: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
COL. SANDERS: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.
DARK HELMET: What happened to then?
COL. SANDERS: We passed then.
DARK HELMET: When?
COL. SANDERS: Just now. We're at now, now.
DARK HELMET: Go back to then.
COL. SANDERS: When?
DARK HELMET: Now!
COL. SANDERS: Now?
DARK HELMET: Now!
COL. SANDERS: I can't.
DARK HELMET: Why?
COL. SANDERS: We missed it.
DARK HELMET: When?
COL. SANDERS: Just now.
DARK HELMET: When will then be now?
COL. SANDERS: Soon.
