don’t know if I should be disappointed
I wasn’t invited to go to that Web 2.0 “Summit”, as they’re calling it now. There is some flip-flopping speculation at who should be there - marketers, thinkers, techies. This is probably all because people still don’t know who “owns” Web 2.0.
When you have a quilting convention or an ASP.NET convention, you know who should be going: people who make quilts and people who program in ASP.NET, respectively.
When you have a convention about Web 2.0, who goes? The advertisers will say “It’s ours, Web 2.0 is all about ubiquitous advertising-supported apps.” The tecchies will say “It’s all about us - we make APIs and mashups and Wikis.” And the thinkers will go “Stay away all you underlings! We shaped this whole thing, and now we need to talk about what’s next.”
So, when you get ~200,000 adverting people, ~100,000 tech people, and ~2,000 thinkers trying to barge down the doors and take control, things get a little manic.
Thanks to the magic of Web 2.0’s blogverse, I can get some impression if it all from Ed Yourdon . My interpretation: big, unweildy, disorganized, eminently useful. The “new style” of conference, like we’ve done with nextNY seems to be their format of choice.
Again, all of this hoopla seems very Cali-centric. How do we get the word out in NY? I need to figure out how to get in contact with some of the named tech folks in NY like Ed and Joel. Their audience in the tech community extends far beyond NY, and if we asked them to blog along their NY audience… we could probably start that kind of buzz in New York.
Must go formuate master plan.