{"id":418,"date":"2005-10-10T23:04:43","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T06:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2005-10-11T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T20:08:51","slug":"web21-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/10\/web21-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Web2.1 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m glad I decided to go<\/a> to the Web2.1 BrainJam<\/a>. I was a bit nervous, since I didn’t know anybody there and I don’t do this stuff for a living, but it turned out to be a good time. <\/p>\n

Chris Heuer, the organizer, wanted to try doing what he called Speed Brainjamming<\/a>, and what Christopher Allen<\/a> called “Knowledge Cafes”. The basic idea was to sit down with a few people you didn’t know, talk for a bit (10-20 minutes), and then they called time, and you moved on to a set of new people. I enjoyed it a lot, meeting a bunch of new people, and hearing a bunch of different ideas. It was interesting the different directions that people are coming at this from: some were academics interested in research, others were entrepreneurs who wanted to know what the business model was, others were thinking of it as a tool to help their own pursuits, whether real estate<\/a> or nonprofits<\/a>, and, of course, for me, it’s a hobby. So it was great to hear about how people are thinking about using these new web tools, and I was always a bit disappointed when we had to stop talking and move on to the next group.<\/p>\n

A couple conversations I particularly enjoyed:<\/p>\n