Susie’s going to be speaking at BlogHer on Friday, 9 to 11:30. If you only go to ONE session at BlogHer, definitely go to So You Have This Crazy Idea. It’s all about how to build blog sites that engage and build community.
Susie’s going to be covering the technology part of the discussion—the other panelists are a lawyer, a consultant, and an entrepreneur. (Well, take those labels witha grain of salt—none of these women are describable in a single-word!)
Meanwhile, I’m headed to Wikimania in Cambridge, MA, the next weekend Aug. 4-6. It’s all about building wikis, and also about wiki building. I find wikis fascinating—I could sit back and watch people build them all day.
But I’m going because there’s a real application for wikis in what many of Hop Studios’ clients are doing. And, there’s a great extra-day seminar on Aug. 7 led by Dan Gillmor, which is all about Citizen Journalism, and I’m really looking forward to participate in what’s going on there. The other bonus is that our new employee Matt Gardner has just moved to Boston and we’ll be able to meet up.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)