So, shall soft wear? Well?

Yesterday, out of the blue, Jay Jordan sent me the following message:

FYI
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/04/02/meetup-in-seattle/

Well, what the heck... why not?  So I arrived early and watched for the baseball cap with a B, waiting for a blind date who didn't know I was coming.  Soon after 8, Marshall and Curt arrived and I introduced myself, and we set about deconstructing Web 2.0 (mostly they deconstructed, and I listened). Highlights of my Monday night site map follow:

Lulu Self publishing saleable content, one book, CD, DVD or podcast at a time.

Grazr - Web-based outline processor for better organized feeds (look under TopTen Sources for the Library Blogs); uses OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language).

Freedom Toaster Free open-source access kiosk - no internet needed (and where is Knysna, anyway???)

Netsquared.com "remixing the web for social change"

AJAX - its not just for GoogleMaps anymore.  Read about it at this link, or try some of the latest aps here

Podleaders.com Tom Raftery's podcast thoughtleader interview site.  Got a question for an interviewee? 

Ohmynews.com Citizen Journalism in South Korea... "Asian participatory anything is just way ahead, whether it's Japan or Korea"

Library Stuff  Steven Cohen's Library 2.0 Weblog

ResourceShelf Gary Price's news digest for IT professionals

Raw Danny Ayers, semantic-webhead RDF, RSS, metadata wonk tranplanted from northern England to Lucca, Italy. 

Buzzmachine Jef Jarvis' blog on digital culture and media

Librarysuccess.org A best-practices Wiki for innovation in the library world.  Managed by Meredith Farkas, of Norwich University

Dar Williams the folksinger

Mashup the idiom of Web remix culture

Pledgebank Social contracts in social software

Frappr  Link your group/photos/ideas/favorite places to the GoogleMaps API

Nicholas Carr Does IT matter?

And then, as if all that wasn't enough, I got home around midnight to dessert, from Lorcan:

The Hughtrain Manifesto
"We are here to find meaning. We are here to help other people do the same. Everything else is secondary."

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Smithsonian towers and the Washington Monument, the Mall, March 2006

Comments

[Marshall Kirkpatrick]

That's great Stu, I'm glad you had a good time and found those URLs useful. It was sure nice to meet you. I found your summaries of them quite interesting!