Web 2.0 Summit Videos: Lessig, Kelly, Al Gore, many more
I'm typing this post from backstage at the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit where Rebecca McKinnon and Isaac Mao are delivering their presentations right now. Mr. Al Gore is standing a few feet away here, with Joel Hyatt, both co-founders of Current. Mr. Gore is very graciously accommodating a flood of autograph requests, and he will be taking the stage at 4:30. The joint is filling up in anticipation of his speech. I've been in and out of sessions here for the past three days, and there's been great stuff nonstop. Two of my favorite sessions so far are embedded here, and there's much more online. Above, Lawrence Lessig, and below, Kevin Kelly. Check 'em out!
BTW, I just asked Mr. Gore if he's really the guy behind this Twitter account. He is, and he tweets his own tweets. And that, my friends, is one of many reasons why the man is our hero. His speech will be online later. Link to archive of 2008 Web 2.0 Summit videos.
UPDATE: Below, A snapshot from BB pal Brent Marcus at Current, who explains, "I thought this was a really cool photo of Al Gore talking to Kevin Rose yesterday. The interview is on tonight at 10."
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Love that photo of Kevin with Al Gore - anyone interested in anthropology would get a real kick out of the body language shown.
Just once, try to engage with the interesting parts of the entry.
Man, is Lessig that in-sync with his powerpoint live on stage? Those are some mad presentation skills.
I agree with Lessig's larger point -- that the new bankruptcy law is bad and money played a big role in its passage.
However, I was disheartened to see his presentation begins by spreading the widely repeated rumor that the new law makes it impossible to wipe out credit card debt.
This has been one of the most widespread -- albeit false -- impressions of the new bankruptcy law, and it has simply given the banks a windfall of benefits that are NOT in the law, because consumers fail to take advantage of the important (and very beneficial) rights that still exist under the bankruptcy law.
I am the co-author of Nolo's How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, and the operator of the website
http://www.legalconsumer.com
For the past two years, I have been using my webstite to educate consumers about the rights they still have under the new law.
Yes the law did impose a means test, but that test is easily passed by to 90% of the people to typically file for bankruptcy.
More than 200,000 people have used my free web-based "Means Test Calculator" to determine whether they still qualify for bankruptcy. More than 80% of these calculator users have had no trouble passing the income and/or disposable income requirements under the new law.
Don't get me wrong. I hate the new law. It's awful. It does present many new procedural requirements in filing.
But, I would hope that in future presentations, he refrains from spreading the 'big lie' that it is no longer possible to wipe out credit card debt in bankruptcy. That is simply false.
In the coming 24 months as millions of middle class Americans face the real possiblility of bankruptcy, it's important for them to know they still have the right to wipe out their credit card debt.
The body language says a lot.
@ #5 insomma: You said it. Lessig continues to impress me with his presentation skills.
This topic was potentially repetitive and something that could easily be tuned out. His presentation made it interesting and relevant.
Something pretty extraordinary there.
I think folks "reading" the body languages in the Gore - Rose photo are not taking into account the two different cultures the two men come from: both are showing themselves open to conversation. Gore's stance is not arms folded across the chest but dropped down in a meditative way. Rose has his thumbs in his pocket. Both are relaxed in posture.
As of this afternoon, the Gore video still wasn't up. I've watched most of the rest of the conference video. Interesting stuff.
On balance I could have done with more speakers in the direction of Rebecca McKinnon and less about cloud computing. One of the best things about the conference seems to be that it occurred right after the Obama victory, and so many of the speakers were still frantically trying to understand and process what had just happened and what it all meant,
One thing I wish had received more attention was the distraction potential of social media with its way of constantly refocusing you on the dominant memes at the expense of other things one might find interesting. Social media have virtues, but also can be corrosive to original thought. Though Twitter was terrific for watching the presidential debates where everyone is already watching the same show, I find the social media really distracting form things that are not the meme du jour.
I was, I guess, waiting for one of the many speakers to give me some insight into possible solutions to that problem. One reason I particularly liked McKinnon was that she let some sense of the larger world and the consequences of Silicon Valley decisions on it into the discussion.
My personal experience with the social media is that I find that I was much more likely to engage on my blog with stories about places like Haiti or Kenya or Somalia or Afghanistan when the only significant social media I was involved with was blogs. With all of the Facebook/Twitter/LJ etc chatter, it is too easy to feel like no one would be interested if I were to write about some place like that even though I know that's not true.
All that having been said, I wish I'd been there watching live rather than watching it all on blip.tv.
This thing was really hard to sneak in to! I have been to a lot of technology conferences and they never have security people actually checking the badges. At the web 2.0 summit there were people at every door! Granted, you could go into the lobby of the hotel (public space) but to see any of the talks live I had to push past when a large surge of people went in, and I got busted after about three times of doing that.
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