SXSW, Web Worker Daily, live FriendFeeding, and other stuff
I’ve been neglecting little old OMC, and I’m sorry for it. I have been very busy on the webs, but that’s still no excuse.
Here’s a quick brief on what I’ve been up to.
Bunch of stories published over at Web Worker Daily, for one:
* Say Hello to Blellow, Microblogging Web Workers
* Can Microblogging Platforms Help Reduce The Email Glut?
* Bootstrapping Web Workers Get A Roadmap At SXSW 2009
* Technorati Attention Index Ranks Authority of “Non-Blog†Sources
* WebWorkerDaily Guide to SXSW Interactive 2009
* Twimailer Makes Twitter Email Alerts More Friendly, Useful
And I attended South by Southwest last week, which was phenomenal, exhausting, and supremely recommended for anyone seriously interested in the present and future of the webs.
One of the coolest things that came out of it was a “live FriendFeed” thread that I kicked off during a session called Beyond Aggregation, which included a panel of people such as my pal Louis Gray, Gabe Rivera of Techmeme, Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, Melanie Baker of AideRSS, and Micah Baldwin from Lijit. Not only was it one of the best panels that I attended, but it was super cool how people such as Robert Scoble, Matt Cutts from Google, my old friend Aaman Lamba, Hutch Carpenter, and a bunch of others hopped into the thread, both enhancing the coverage of the session and adding commentary along the way.
I’ve heard a lot of stuff about “crowdsourced” content and collaborative journalism and so forth over the years, but this was the closest I’ve ever felt to the real thing. Here’s the thread if you want to check it out.
