I was in Europe for the past week and half, ending up in Leuven, Belgium to speak at the Twiist.be conference. The topic of my talk was “The Open, Social Web.” (PDF)
At first I struggled to develop a compelling or sensible narrative for the talk — as there is so much to it that I [...]
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Brynn got this in the mail last week and shared it with me. Let’s just say that it struck a nerve.
I’ve worried for some time that “open” as a market differentiator is becoming diluted and washed out, just as “organic” and “green” before. Like “2.0″, companies are coming to see “open” as [...]
I spent the weekend in DC at TransparencyCamp, an event modeled after BarCamp focused on government transparency and open access to sources of federal data (largely through APIs and web services). Down the street, a social-media savvy conference called PowerShift convened over 12,000 of the nation’s youth to march on Congress to have their concerns [...]