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June 09, 2003
Doc is moderating. Great set of panelists. Doc asks where tools are going. Jason Shellen of Blogger: Blogger is playing catchup. They were building a tool for web designers originally. They now have 1.5M registered users. So, they're doing a major code revision. He agrees with Tim Appnel on the previous panel that the tools will fade away; you won't notice them or recognize them as blogging tools. Bob Frankston: We need to try out many more ideas. We need more people to do experimental development Dan Bricklin: 1. You have to integrate your blog with the rest of your web site. 2. The current generation of blog tools take care of the housekeeping. This is like VisiCalc and 1-2-3. We're not yet at the level of Excel. One of the important new capacities will be multimedia. But we don't know what will be invented. Anil Dash of Six Apart, the company that makes Movable Type. The immediate future for them is a service for beginning bloggers. More generally, MT thinks that "the anatomy of the weblog has been decided," e.g., blogroll, permalink, TrackBack, etc. The goal should be to work backwards from what people are doing with blogs to provide them with the tools they need. Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter: You shoudn't have to blog only from your PC. Their research shows that we want at least two bloggable devices. John Robb of Userland: They're getting ready to release Frontier 9 with spiffy new features. On the Radio side, they're looking forward to synching up with multiple desktops. There will be continuing need for desktop clients as more multimedia gets included. Jason tells us to check QLogger.com, whose creator is in the audience. Anil: We can broaden publishing so that you can present a much fuller picture of yourself, including potentially all the audio you hear all day. But then we'll probably want to control who sees/hears what, he says. Bob says we'll get very good at creating "synthetic personalities." Doc is now dinging the panelists for features. Dave has just promised to add the ability to add a link within Radio without having to go to a menu. Kerfuffle about what to call MovableType's code: Open Source? Nah. Editable source? Yeah. The panel did not go off the rails on this the way it wanted to. Doc wants to be able to serve up photos from his desktop. Dan says that that is unlikely to come through blogging since blogging is too complex; people will want to dump their photos onto the machine and have magic happen. (Major paraphrasing.) Anil wants to be able to store it in The Cloud rather than having to connect up at home. Bob says the real innovation is going to come out of Japan.
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Comments
Okay, here I come with a slight reality check...
Do you guys feel that you might, um, be going about this blog conference multi-blogger blogathon the wrong way (lest I say going about the conference the wrong way)?
As respectfully as I can point out, Me thinks you all lost the fun part someplace along the way. You know, this thing, as i understand it, it's supposed to be about b-l-o-g-g-i-n-g, right?
Okay. So, Tomorrow I expect conference blogging to take place in such locales as outside each restroom--with posts on who brings a newspaper in and who doesn't. Wagers on Doc as paper bringer will begin this evening, especially since he made the comment that he produces content on the john. By the way, God love Doc. That's the best thing I've heard from the coverage yet. Thanks David for catching that.
As for how many bloggers it takes to screw in a web post, I confess that I don't much care. I care about who showed pictures of their kids to whom, who laughed so hard at lunch that diet coke came out of their nose, and which Victoria Secret bra Halley wore under her slinky suitt.
PLEASE don't forget your roots, ya'll.
This is a conference full of bloggers, not an MBA lecture at Harvard.
I can't take it. I just can't take it....
Posted by: jeneane | June 10, 2003 01:10 AM
Sorry I couldn't make it there, but actually I didn't wanna be there. Instead I attended the Planetwork Conference where MoveOn.org and Doug Engelbart spoke and something called the ASN (Augmented Social Network) was unveiled.
Some agreement on a 'People's DNS'.
Now we just have to get it built. Meanwhile Danny Ayers fleshed out the ThreadsML schema and HOPEFULLY Ben Hammersley will augment out ThreadsML.org site - which certain people think is fine.
Try sending someone there and see what they think...
And I couldn't agree with Jeanne more - me thinks this biz-blogging stuff - is for teh birds. And only by boycotting scenes like you're at now - will that message get across.
Leave the k-logging to the kloggers.
Posted by: Marc Canter | June 10, 2003 02:57 PM
Big disagreement. I went to an IM in Business conference where vendor after vendor described how they'd turn IM into a tool of oppression. At this Blog in Business conference, the story is a lot different. It's important that we *not* boycott venues thinking about how blogs will enter the business world.
The Planetwork thing sounds very cool.
Posted by: dweinberger | June 10, 2003 03:05 PM
Smart clients are one direction that we are taking weblogs. We just released FM Radio in partnership with Userland. Soon we will have the same custom C++ client application for Manila users. Next Movible Type and Blogger.
What we really have is an example of a smart xml-rpc client application to one interesting class of web service called weblogs. There are other interesting untapped classes of web services that we are going after next.
http://www.socialdynamx.net/faqs to see screen shots
Leaving the browser as a interaction model behind has been very liberating experience for me.
Adding other aspects of a users information needs is next. We all have information needs for communication, collaboration, and personal knowledge managment. With the pier-to-pier enginge that is radio.exe and this enhanced presentation layer that is SocialDynamX there are some parts of the story that I'm keeping to myself for now but when you see them they will make so much sense that you will wonder why nobody else thought of it yet.
ssd
Posted by: Stephen Dulaney | June 11, 2003 02:28 PM