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Kevin Marks (Epeus Epigone) earned the admiration of BloggerCon web addicts by providing WiFi where mighty Harvard could not. He also made some of the best comments I heard.
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Just a few great Bloggercon Kevin Marks quotes:
- Journalism (Day 1)
- “The question is who can speak when. With weblogs, everyone can speak at once, in parallel. Prisoner’s dilemma–the weblog gives you a motive to be trustworthy.” [More on this in Kevin’s own blog and also here.]
- Cluetrain 2003 (Day 1)
- ” The net changes the power law of the media curve. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, you get a power curve that goes all the way down gradually, to the bottom where you see pages that got just a single click. If you look at popularity in the “real” world–best-selling books, or top music–the power curve drops like a stone from a very high level. That’s because in order to get a book published, or a piece of music recorded, you have to convince somebody that you’re going to sell a million copies. You end up in a zero-sum game, where people pour enormous resources into being number one, because number two is only half as good. The promise of the net is that the power of all those little links can outweigh the power of the top ten.”
- Technology (Day 2)
- “I realized that I can read thoughts–but only if people write them down first. Our thoughts are constrained by the way we write them down.
Writing on IRC–tendency to flirtation, chatting–it’s easy for someone to destroy by shoulting abuse. The tendency for a WIki is consensus–debate doesn’t work because stark disgreement makes people go back and forth erasing what the other side wrote. Weblog–spontaneous, personal, but you are motivated to be more coherent that IRC because it’s a little bit permanent.” - Audioblogging (Day 2)
- In the audio-video world we have live stream, in real time, basically like IRC. We also have professionally produced stuff that takes a long time to create. What’s missing is the “just-in-time” audio, the equivalent of blogging. “
p.s. Kevin and Adam Curry are working an a gateway called “SyncPod” between RSS feeds and an iPod, so that you can automatically put stuff into an iTunes playlist to listen to on the iPod.
p.p.s. (from Day 2 Technology session
Frank Paynter: ” I argued with Kevin Marks a bit online, and friends warned me, “Kevin is a good guy, so you don’t want to offend him–and he’s a genius so you don’t want to argue with him.”
JoiIto, via the IRC feed: “And Kevin’s got an upper class accent that’s hard to argue with.”