Neither is the Blogosphere

Dave Winer points out that some conferences he recently attended were not unconferences.  He says “people don’t seem ready yet to accept that knowledge is distributed through the room.”

I agree that the structure of an unconference is a better way to learn about a lot of stuff.  But I sort of feel the way Dave felt at those conferences every time I fire up my feed reader.

If we want to promote unconferences, first we need to promote an unblogosphere.

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  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/14948189729759099429 Seth Finkelstein

    He-said-it-not-me!http://getreal.corante.com/archives/whats_wrong_with_bloggercon.php“The format is problematic in reality. A lone session moderator begins with a presentation of various ideas on the topic, and then a free-for-all ensues, where the 50 to 250 people in the group raise their hands, ask a question, elaborate on some issue, or whatever. Often, you might have to wait 10 minutes or more to actually get to speak on some topic now 10 minutes cold.However, Winer and the other conference insiders reserve the right to break into the flow of the sessions, and so Scoble, Searls, Steve Gillmor, and the like seem often to be having their conversation in the session and not the halls, but not everybody else.”

  • http://dnwallace.com/blog Dave – Lifekludger

    Hey Kent. Seems reminiscent of the Second Opinion/NewTailBlog/LongTailJewel meme.Affermative TractionDavePS: Have I mispaced somec email re arrangements for getting you on the podcast?

  • Anonymous

    yeah. I’m down with the unblogosphere.. try me at http://www.kuzushi.us I’m what? Like an P-lister?