Alberto Saavedra 2.0

Not so many months ago, if there was a cool event like Supernova 2005, you have to wait for press coverage to get a few points of view of what happened there, fortunately now with blogging, blogcasting, tagging, searching and other online community tools you can get some of the magic without attending. Here are some highlights:

• Jonathan Schwartz: trust is the new currency of the Information - Participation - Age.
  
• Chris Anderson and the opportunities in the Long Tails: aggregators, niche suppliers & post-filters, also TV will fragment and radio is already broken.
• Hossein Eslambochi says that software is the goldmine and on-demand utility everywhere is coming, forces of freedom are driving the change.
• Byron Reeves: in the virtual world failure doesn't hurt and you make bonds with other people.
• John Seely Brown: "Offshoring is not wage arbitration, but about accessing distinctive skills...not to lower transaction costs, but to accelerate the ability to learn and innovate."
• Alan Ganek and Autonomic Computing: "imagine a world where computers fix their own problems before you even know something is wrong"
• Linda Evans: Need to network and always-on lifestyle makes us feel important, the new aphrodisiac is committed attention and focus
  
• Kevin Marks and dynamic categorization, keep in mind Microformats too.
• Janice Fraser: "people develop impressions based on their experience, not on marketers messages", lightweight, easy to implement, mantain, single focus apps are preferred.
• Philip Evans: technology simple and pervasive, process knowledge is a commons, visibility and transparency build trust
• Doree Duncan: a user needs a tool to manage his dynamic communication devices to service users and protect the users from them.
• Steve Gillmor: implicit and explicit metadata and anonymizing data.
• Dave Sifry: Hyperlinks are a form of social gesture

It's been almost a year without posting, after things didn't work as expected I took a break and planned to get my goal through other ways, well now I'm here in Mexico, waiting for some crucial interviews again and this time with a backup plan! - Live and learn ;-) - but now it's taking more time - I rejected already another opportunity - but I believe now it's my time.

In our Information Age, it is difficult to be really informed, but since I am a research student now I have the time to try it. I was not expecting that blogs will get so popular so I had to catch up reading some of the AO/Technorati Open Media 100 blogs, listening to tech podcasts and using Google News and Technorati to find about what the i-Technology people were up to.

There is too much information, but now I have been understanding better what people are up to and I am not just reviewing past events, so it is time to use this blog for something, I need to save the links and interesting thoughts somewhere, so let's get it on!