Reboot in Retrospect

A beautifully spare summation of Reboot by Trine-Marie Kristensen:

[from Jaiku]

Post reboot / / / people are streams (Tor) and connections are about flow (Stowe) and products are people too (Webb) .

Tor Nørretranders opening presentation was one of the standouts of Reboot, for me. The line "Sex is the origin of all that is noble" rang like a bell in my head for hours later, and since he kicked off in the main hall on Thursday, it was a perfect bookend for my presentation Friday first thing on the same stage. I am bad at note taking these days, but my friend Lars Plougmann created a mindmap of Tor's presentation:

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Stephanie Booth took some notes of my talk (although she disagrees with some of my arguments), here. I will try to create a longish post around my slides tomorrow. (Today it is sunny in Copenhagen, and I intend to go rambling.)

Lars Plougmann also did a mind map of my talk:

Like Trine-Marie, I also thought Matt Webb's talk was great: we need to think about products -- not just AI-inspired software, but all sorts of things in the world -- like people if we want to design things better. The way we interact with them should be increasingly like a conversation, not just our fingers jabbing at buttons. His examples were inspired, as usual. And the perfect touch of not being too serious: he consulted the I Ching when he was stumped about how to complete the talk, a few days prior to the conference, so he included the guidance of the Oracle in his talk!

I also enjoyed Leisa Reichelt, Alexander Kjerulf, Stephanie Booth, Håkon Wium Lie, Robert Paterson, Kars Affrink, Marius Watz, and Marko Ahtisaari. The micro presentations were really fun, although the conversion from Powerpoint to Keynote screwed up my fonts. Still, people liked my "Entrepreneurialitis" micropresentation.

The life outside the talks is what makes Reboot so great, and I can't even begin to try to characterize that, except the Dopplr Users meeting, which was a little more formal.

tags: dopplr, reboot, reboot9, trine-marie+kristensen, tor+nørretranders, matt+webb, flow, entrepreneurialitis

Comments

[Guy Dickinson]

Hi Stowe.

I thought your micropresentation was excellent - I owe you two apologies, of course - I only glanced at everyone's slideset (I wanted to experience it with the audience) so font failures were a problem I hadn't anticipated. And I don't think you and Robert ever got to eat that pizza, did you? Sorry!!

[Trine-Maria]

Thanks Stowe - good to see you again here in Copenhagen.

I think the beauty of this years theme on reboot (Human?) was that a lot of the presentations actually related to it in some way - and that was what I was trying to sum up in my little Jaiku :-)

And I liked the theme because we got closer to how all these technological changes affects us as humans. Think about "social innovation" - how when something new happens in our society (at the moment - more micromedia, more social radius on the internet, more old people in society, more knowledgeworkers, less industry and so on) we "invent" new social practices to get to terms with it and to integrate it in our lives.

We invented kindergarten when women went to work, and children became children when we had the welfare to provide for them - and at the moment we are reinventing ways of following each others lifes from a distance. Maybe we are really on our way back to the "tribe"?

[Tom Purves]

Indeed a good summary of reboot. And your entrepreneurialitis talk was spot on.

I hastily splodged my notes from Webb's talk under this flickr shot here. good stuff: http://flickr.com/photos/thomaspurves/526846865/

[Edward]

re "important messages will be delivered multiple times" echoes the Usenet dictum "repetition is the very soul of the net"

[Ben Metcalfe]

I just wanted to say that neither of these mind maps really make much sense when abstracted to the degree they have been.

"what it means to be human... if we know what it means than we can simulate being human"... Sorry, you lost me - or at least I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that information.

I guess if you have the context from being present at the presentation you can hang the detail on the points.

What's *my* point here? Well I wonder what we, as a community, can do to improve the dissemination of information like this. Clearly we can't all attend all conferences. However sounds like informative and thought provoking stuff but it's been boiled down to mush.

That's not a criticism of you Stowe or anyone else -- this happens all the time. If Web2.0 is/was about opening up the silos of information I wonder whether we should extend that to our presentations too? How can we help ensure this kind of insight can flow out of that particular conference silo?

[Stowe Boyd]

Guy - No worries.

Trine-Marie - I think we are headed back to tribal logics.

Tom - I like the post based on chat, although a bit difficult to read.

Edward - Yes.

Ben - Ummm. Hmmm. I liked the mindmaps, probably because I was there so yes, provided the context they work. Apologies if they don't.

[Melinda]

Great maps! Are you a MindManager user? What kinds of trends do you see in the market regarding maps, productivity, collaboration ...Web 2.0 version? Would love to chat with you sometime.