Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit Thursday October 15th

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The list of attendees at The ReadWrite-Real-Time-Web Summit is certainly looking impressive and the event wiki already has a good list of topics that people want to discuss. The purpose of the event is to bring together some industry leaders to discuss the following:
  • The state of the art, science and business of the Real-Time Web;
  • Efforts to create standards and interoperability;
  • Challenges in user experience, technology and monetization.
I am really looking forward to attending and participating on Thursday. In my attempt to get smarter quickly :-), i have no doubt this event will meet my expectations- the combination of the RWW team, the participants listed and Kaliya Hamlin who is known for coordinating un-conference events it is sure to be worthwhile.

It is not too late to register and there is a discount code"RWWDiscount" that is good until end of day today, Tuesday Oct 13th.

If you are not located in the Bay Area you can also check out selected sessions throughout the day via a live video broadcast on ReadWriteWeb.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Twitter Cleanse. Back Refreshed but Dumber

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I kinda did it on purpose but definitely did it for longer then i originally anticipated- mainly because life got in the way- but i quit Twitter for a while (my last tweet was on August 23rd- WOW i can't believe it has been that long!!)

So every weekend for the last 3-4 weeks i have told myself, "Monday i get back on the bird"- but it has just not happened. I have also been less inclined to blog- all in the same cycle i guess. So what have i learned over the last two months with no Twitter participation? (every once in a while i would look at my stream to try to get myself back in the swing of things but with no avail):
  • I feel dumber. no honestly i do. much much dumber.
  • I went back to relying on Techmeme to keep up with what is happening in the industry- not 'real-time' because i don't visit the site 24/7 but definitely still a wonderful source to use (i also follow the stream on Twitter so i will go back to that)
  • Although i probably have spent more time reading longer, in-depth articles etc. without applying what i am reading with the community and listening/conversing about them it has less impact- so i felt dumber per my first point!
  • I crawled back to my Google Reader and noticed that many bloggers that i used to follow religiously aren't blogging as much- are they are on Twitter more? or like me on a cleanse with life in getting in the way? (yes there are many a blog post out there about the decline of formal blogging being replaced by Twitter)
  • I had a customer the other day dropped me a note- they were worried about me because i had been so 'quiet' - they missed my input because they followed me and subscribed to my blog and i had not been producing much. That was a nice reminder that i needed to motivate myself!
  • I have missed some major announcements- from people moving from one company to the next, new product enhancements, releases etc. eventually i find out but i was no longer one of the 'first' in the know
  • I miss it- i do. the conversations i have been having with myself are not as entertaining and provocative :-)
So...I am back on the bird. tweet. tweet.