barcamp

* Post-BarCamp Block Wrap-Up: About [32] twitters will follow w/ random insights, thoughts & quotes that I've jotted down, but not posted yet

* Interesting facts: BarCampBlock raised $26k in two weeks. There were 23 rooms in 11 locations w/ 6 time slots = 138 possible 30 min sessions

* BarCampBlock works well as a 1-block concept, but not a 3-square block one. I only went to a far away space once. Better to concentrate geo

* Open Source Geek Toolkit was brainstorming a CMS that aggregates all of their social media under one roof: http://tinyurl.com/2jqpth

* GTD session was very catalyzing. Very Handy GTD workflow cheat sheet: http://tinyurl.com/2peoc9 * My session notes http://tinyurl.com/2nf2tf

* GTD is all about clearing your psychic RAM to be present. I think twitter does a great job of clearing our insight/emotional/ephemeral RAM

* Someone in the GTD session was reading the 4-hr Workweek book, which is a pretty intriguing concept. He only checks his e-mail once a week

* Lots of people were interested in the Open Source Visualization session, which mostly demoed Graphviz. I'll have to put notes online soon.

* Just posted a photoset of graph visualizations from a nifty text-to-flowchart maker called Graphviz 4BarCamp talk: http://tinyurl.com/24xvop

* Random UI idea: Make a graph out of quantitative connections/data w/ GraphViz & hyperlink directly to wiki page to hash out qualitative info

* Christian Crumlish did a great presentation about Design Patterns & we had a Social Media Pattern Brainstorm here: http://tinyurl.com/3xbh3k

* I wonder if there are design patterns for making an engaging barcamp session. Brainstorming, conflict, have fascinating topics -- What else?

* BradFitz, DaveMan692 & jsmarr ran a tightly controlled session on Open Social Graph. Kept on topic & lots of dense info. Some fireworks too.

* One session I wish I took more detailed notes was "Opening the Social Graph." Amazing hacking & lots of promise for less annoying social web

* Most exciting innovation today was opening up the social graph. NO MORE ADDING FRIENDS on every new social site. Declare it once & your done

* BarCamp is like open source in that contributions back to the community are valued. There's a lot of room for documentation improvements

* Having specific IRC transcription rooms could help people jump from session to session - or watch remotely. They also need online schedules

* e.g. Liz Henry & I did a live transcription of EFF Privacy discussion & we complemented each other pretty well: http://tinyurl.com/2a3axl

* Danny O'Brien: True Radical Transparency is Viral i.e. no man is an island & publishing everything re: your life auto opts in your friends

* Aggregating friend info can be revealing & so Tantek pollutes the system w/ "social network chaff" by friending totally random ppl.

* Someone re: Tantek's flooding: "I'm sorry you're not my real friend. You're just my social network chaff." heh.

* TechMeme editor had "conflict" as his tag b/c so many headlines are due to some type of conflict. So true. We usually learn from conflict

* Many intense discussions had an element of opposition. EFF lawyer pushed back a lot in Open Social Graph talk Re: http://tinyurl.com/29jxpv

* Overheard: Adblock extension makes sites faster, which in turn means that IE users end up subsidizing the Firefox users on many sites. Hmmmm

* I learned a lot at Agile Devel 101 session: Story, Use Case, Priority, Code, Daily Checkups, Iterate, Test, Eval: http://tinyurl.com/2c4bpx

* A main tenet of Agile development is to "Fail soon & Fail often." Set short iteration cycles & get something working ASAP & expand from that

* Difference between real architecture & software dev is you can't build the roof before the walls. Need the essential foundation built first

* I need to become a lot more agile & process a backlog of brain crack -- like how Ze Frank describes in this video: http://tinyurl.com/yo8hq8

* It was disappointing to see so many sessions on Facebook apps, but refreshing to see a lot of effort & energy put into future of open web

* Chris Messina doesn't like the trend of proprietary tech like AIR / Silverlight & pushed back on Mozilla folks at http://tinyurl.com/2fyppz

* Messina also had ppl tell what they learned, didn't expect or suggestions at the end. It be nice to have all insights in a twitter stream

* Overall, BarCampBlock was very catalyzing & rewarding for me. Lots of new mental connections, synthesis, synergy, learning & networking.

Kent Bye