Comments on: Should Blogging ban Conferences? http://joeduck.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/ Have Blog. Will Travel. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: joeduck http://joeduck.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/#comment-2148 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:55:19 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/#comment-2148 But I like WIFI Welfare!

]]> By: Jeremy Zawodny http://joeduck.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/#comment-2145 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:58:55 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/#comment-2145 I’m not joking at all. Look at it this way: if the conferences are surviving merely because you can get wifi while ignoring 70% of the speakers, banning wifi will accelerate the death of those conferences.

Wifi is like welfare at this point. It’s really *not* helping anyone. It’s prolonging a sad situation.

]]> By: joeduck http://joeduck.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/#comment-2124 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:17:40 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/#comment-2124 Dude! … They are multi-tasking and blogging the presentations!? …

Jeremy banning WIFI? I’m assuming you are joking here?

This gets to the heart of the problem with conferences – they are an inefficient, ancient style of communication based on tribal sensibilities (shaman, under pretense of wisdom, speaks to crowd and enlightens them).

Sure that happens some % of the time but a superior form is a loud and interactive conversation with lots of participation. I think Blogs are the early rumblings of a sweeping and positive change in how we all talk to each other, though they are still based too much on one way “one to many” forms of communication rather than interactivity on many levels where the conversation is non-linear, less time sensitive, highly cross referenced with data and people, and extremely broad and inclusive. I’m hoping to experiment with Second life presentations soon as they seem to have some elements of what I see as a better model for conferencing and communication.

]]> By: Jeremy Zawodny http://joeduck.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/#comment-2072 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:15:01 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/should-blogging-ban-conferences/#comment-2072 I think more confereces should ban wifi. It’s annoying as hell to have half the “audience” not even paying attention to what’s going on. Why are they even in the room when they’re not *really” in the room?

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