I was asked to do a short presentation to the Flick team on the stuff I saw at ETech 2009. I don’t normally take notes at conferences, and I was only there for two days, so this was the best I could do on short notice. There is only one image.
1. tell me I forget
show me I remember
involve me I understand
I was asked to do a short presentation to the Flick team on the stuff I saw at ETech 2009. I donʼt normally take notes at
conferences, and I was only there for two days, so this was the best I could do on short notice. There is only one image.
It is also difficult to go to a conference like ETech and not confuse, or project, what youʼre doing with what people are talking
about so I didnʼt bother trying to do otherwise. Iʼm not going to get in to what those connections are, or might be, because that
would be kissing and telling so youʼll just have to find your own associations.
I would love to hear what other people would say using only these slides as the source material for their own talk.
Most of the slides are quotes from the presenter(s) listed in the notes. This one is taken from the last slide from Eric Paulosʼ
presentation which in turn was taken from a Chinese proverb.
4. music that can
assume the force of
law
Benjamin Bratton
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/7634
http://www.bratton.info/emergency.html
5. mapsfromscratch.com
Mike Migurski, Shawn Allen
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/5555
http://www.mapsfromscratch.com
(I was a booth bunny for this workshop!)
6. connecting documents
vs.
sharing knowledge
Joi Ito
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/6670
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13304
7. design for
abandonment
Chris Luebkeman
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/7290
<rant>It is poor form to talk about climate change, and personal footprints, and then have the nerve to say things like: If
everyone lived like me, weʼd need 42 planets.</rant>
8. in ur tubes ... explodin
Christa Hockensmith
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/8143
(more like this, please)
9. ted stevens was right
Molly Wright Steenson
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/6980
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/its-really-just-a-series-of-tu.html
10. avatars of a service
Mike Kuniavsky
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/5557
I would love to be able to think of something other than iTunes when I look at an Airport Express but since the hardware and
software is designed (read: locked) to prevent that, Mikeʼs point bears that much more truthiness.
11. apple store, nyc
(tangentially related)
D. Crandall, L. Backstrom, D. Huttenlocher, J. Kleinberg. Mapping the World's Photos (WWW09)
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/www09-photos.pdf
As an aside (to ETech entirely) these people have been researching using both tags and explicit geo data, associated with
Flickr photos, to infer points of interest in large cities. It turns out that the Apple store is the fifth most interesting “place” in New
York City.
12. history boxes
(this was just me projecting)
http://www.slideshare.net/straup/history-boxes-presentation
http://blog.flickr.net/2009/02/24/an-abundant-present/
14. say yes
ask questions
later
Tarikh Korula
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/6980
http://uncommonprojects.com/
Tarikhʼs talk is near the 36 minute mark. Meanwhile, It is comforting (I think) to know that someone can find a deeper meaning
in Ashot passed out on the couch.
15. bicycle built for 2000
Aaron Koblin
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/6758
http://bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com
16. think about the data
not the real world
Aaron Koblin
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/6758
18. no training for
trouble-shooting
Eric Rasmussen, Eduardo Jezierski
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/6685
This one seems really important to me. We donʼt do enough of it in general and certainly not when weʼre all hand-waving and
making happy-talk about the future.
19. blister packs of
functionality
Eric Paulos
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/5565
20. a network is
a collection of
interfaces
Benjamin Bratton
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/7634
http://www.bratton.info/emergency.html
A collection of interfaces becomes a network; A collection of networks becomes a territory; A territory exposes interfaces.
21. nodes
on
top
of
real
places
Ben Cerveny
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/5558
22. to protect the
necessary condition
of churn
Benjamin Bratton
http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/7634
http://www.bratton.info/emergency.html
23. the parliament of
things
(Bruno Latour)
Iʼm not sure that I buy this in practice but it is interesting protective gear for touching the possibility jelly with.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3284171116/
