reboot10
As a part of the work I’ve been doing recently at Twingly, we went to the reboot10 conference in Copenhagen.
This was the 10th consecutive reboot, and they basically focus only on web and philosophies around how to build an even better web. And since we are in the web2.0 era, basically all the talk was about that, and how it’s developing into a huge organism, and that everybody can have their own say.
We have recently had a huge debate in Sweden about a new law that is making it possible for the government to basically search through all our internet activity. As you can guess this should have raised quite a big rawr from the media, but it didn’t instead it was the bloggers that raised their voices. The impact has been imense, today the mailservers at the parliament were down due to being overrun by email oposing the law. Obviously the “big” media has cought up, but it was the blogger community that started it all.
Anyway, reboot. Since this was the first professional conference I’ve ever been too it was a really cool experience on it’s own. All this really well known people within the area that I’m really interested and hoping to be able to work within in the future. All this experience in just one house, I was impressed and there was a lot to learn. Just a small example was how all the people were on their computer all the time, talking and updating the world about what was happening. There was a lot of live bloggers, meaning that they were blogging live as the speaker was talking, others were using Twitter to convey their messages. Mainly it was a huge buzz of information exchange happening all the time
I’ve never seen something like it, and to tell you the truth, I’m totally drawn to it. I met a lot of like minded people, that want to change the world through communication in one way or another, for example this dude, that decided to go around the world for free, or almost anyway, read on on his site.
In general I’m really impressed, and am looking forward to see what this community of very impressive people have to learn me.