The Announcement
As some of you may know, I am a Senior TED Fellow. As such, I am going to the TED conference in Long Beach, CA at the end of the month. I am also going to visit a friend in San Francisco and then to SXSWi. It’s going to be a really amazing trip, and I am already bouncing around in excitement. (And some despair, at leaving my infant and my kindergartener.)
I have a few questions: Are any of you in LA, SF, or Austin? Should we try to have a meet-up? My blog stats seem to imply all the Americans come from the east coast, but I am not sure if that’s true or some data issue I don’t understand.
Also, what kind of blogging would you like to see from TED and SXSWi? I don’t plan to live tweet unless something epic happens, because I hate live tweeting but I do want to blog a bit.
The Products
I’ve been getting friends and colleagues set up on Twitter for a while now. I’ve got lists of good people to follow by subject, a whole process for identifying what you want from twitter, and etiquette and best practice notes. I have now codified it all into two different Twitter jump-start packages you can purchase from my online store. If any of you aren’t on twitter already, it’s a useful way to start.
The Pretty Pictures
I am finally putting together an e-book based on this blog. I need a picture for the cover. Please vote in the comments for the picture you like best. Two are from Tajikistan and the last one is from Lebanon.
Picture A:
Picture B:
Picture C:
Picture A has my vote, love the contrast between stone and snow.
I’d love to hear a summary of what you learned in your blog.
Hello, I just started reading your blog for a few months, does your blog stats account from people like me who use RSS readers (I don’t visit the blog itself as much)? I live near Los Angeles, I’d totally love to meet up for a coffee chat to discuss your work.
PS I like C the best. It reminds me that development is a metaphorical road that hasn’t been built yet…
Picture A
From SXSW – Panel reviews
From TED – discussions that go beyond the presentations. They will be accessible eventually, so that is less important as how people react or questions that follow the presentation. Analysis would be nice here as well, but I would love to hear more about what goes on at TED beyond the talks.
Picture A Blood (development/building) and Milk (snow/natural balance)
unless you are gonna call the book something else.
🙂
Picture A
I also like Picture A.
Curious: Why do you dislike live-tweeting? Did you mean you don’t like doing it or don’t like seeing it in your stream?
I’m a little obsessed with everything real-time web these days, so just curious to hear your thoughts. I also did not realize you had a product store for some reason. Looks like there are some great resources, I’ll be recommending them.
I get bored reading live-tweeting – there is never enough context or analysis to make it interesting for me. And I find if I focus on live-tweeting, I lose my own connection to the event. For me, the interesting part of a speech or presentation is how it changes my thinking once it’s had time to really sink in.
I guess I’ll cast the lone vote for picture B. Looking forward to the book!
Picture B has my vote because I like how it shows actual people doing something that shows the way they live.
Also about the twitter feeds there just isnt enough context as someone previously mentioned.
I vote for B! Seems most appropriate for the book…
Picture B, for appropriateness and visual interest.