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By: mesh blog » 2006 » March

mesh blog » 2006 » March — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:38:19 +0000

[...] Update: Rob posts this morning on the tools we are using to get mesh going, and Mathew talks more about what we are trying to do. Add Comment (6) | Trackback | Permalink [...]

By: Is there a perfect kind of conference? » mathewingram.com/work

Is there a perfect kind of conference? » mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:32:41 +0000

[...] As are we all, Euan, as are we all. That’s why I keep writing about how with mesh we are trying to create something part-way between a traditional conference and an “unconference.” Can’t get enough of my thoughts on that topic? Here’s another one. I think Euan and I share a similar thought — that boring, stale, PowerPoint-filled conferences are useless, but also (as he puts it) that he’s kind of irritated by “a small group of people who have attended mind-boggling numbers of conferences… over the past four years in the US getting bored with themselves and declaring conferences dead.” [...]

By: The mesh wiki — create a workshop » mathewingram.com/work

The mesh wiki — create a workshop » mathewingram.com/work — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:38:14 +0000

[...] I’ve written before about the debate over conferences versus “unconferences” — which Dave Winer and Jeff Jarvis and some others (including the whole FooCamp and BarCamp gang) feel is a better way of organizing things. As I’ve said before, I think there are benefits to both approaches, whether it’s the free and self-organizing approach or the more structured, charge-a-fee approach. And with our mesh conference in Toronto on May 15th and 16th, we’re trying to do a little of both. [...]

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:48:08 +0000

A pleasure and good luck with Mesh 2.0.

By: This Time Before An Event at Podcast on the Floor

This Time Before An Event at Podcast on the Floor — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:53:10 +0000

[...] It’s all morphing. Just look at what is planned for mesh, a web 2.0 conference in Toronto coming up in May. Reading Matthew Ingram’s blog, mesh is taking from the traditonal conferences and implementing practices you see at shows like Moose Camp and Bar Camp. I bet the unconference room will be packed. Photos, audio, video, text — this is where documenting the differences between the two formats will be of real interest to watch and compare how the discussions differ. It’s that frictionless media, again, mashing up thoughts, questioning our ways, which may make mesh the web 2.0 event to study this year. [...]