Concon notes by 
Tantek Çelik
Paul Schreiber

 http://wiki.oreillynet.com/etech/pub?ConCon

It's a pretty full house.

Danny gives a satirical summary of ETech.

Kevin Marks gives the Technorati summary
  Powerlaw logaritmic distribution
  Powerlaw inverted, lots more folks with 4 links
  Technorati top products
  
Schuyler Erle Collaborative Mapping Workshop
  "Hey Free Maps"
  Opensource GIS
  Hey folks, we need to free the maps.

Ralf Muehlen, A Tale of Two Wireless Cities 
 sflan.net
 city-wide LAN

Marc on digital democracy
 who owns the community?
  - Marc wants to rent/use the Dean/MoveOn/etc. list
 10million politically active people on the internet
  - use 2+ of n traits (forward email, donate, blog, etc.)
 plug: indyvoter.org
 need distributed social networks
  not just centralized sites like tribe.net, moveon.org. deanspace

Danny O'Brien
  Life Hacks
  things he didn't say in his talk
    emailed people 2 mos. before his talk
    and asked for help
  people
  - eric raymond, guido van rossum, cory doctorow, etc.
  common tools
  - todo.txt (text files)
  - shells
    - really simple, works across machines
    - easy to use
  esr had two shells shaped like barrels of a gn
the more open you are, the cooler you are
because they were pushing stuff into the real world, it was helping them get organized
motivation is important
- if it's just you, you have a mess
- if you're puttingit out in public, you have to smarten up and tidy yourself.

end of day 1


Cory Doctorow - keynote 2
"who writes things"
wrote out his whole talk before his session
copyright, ebooks etc.
learned from a year of distributing books on the internet
torre books, largest scifi pub in world

- boring things people say when you say the word "ebook" which aren't true
- music execs thought napster was dead because ppl wanted liner notes, 
rip could be bad, server could die mid-download

"problems" with ebooks
- screens are too low res (the only ppl who say this are geeks who spend all day 
staring at 72 dpi screens b/c they are the only ones who understand "dpi")
- physical artifacts 
- ownership
  - is owning the ascii version
  - most easily converted to other forms
  -as opposed to physical form, takes much more effort to convert
- can't be read in the bathtub [unless you buy a special ebook reader, 
which is like buying a separate car for driving to the bank]

Jason Harlan
(sound effect from DonkeyKong starting up)
- locative issues
- associate media w/ a location to convey more info about the media
- combine arts w/ tech
- too much emphasis on the conceptual and not enough on implementation
- 

Panel Discussion
- social networking discussion
Jo Walsh, Jonathan Moore, Kevin Burton
 Jo's going to talk about Foaf
 Jonathan hacking friendster
 Kevin Burton ripping your data off Friendster

Jo:
- FOAF allows you to describe metadata properties about yourself
- tribe.net is interested in FOAF
Kevin Burton:
- rise of Tribe, Orkut, etc.
- terms of service annoying
- centralized and not open
- Exportster - plugin that uses plugins
 small simple api 3k download
 alpha code
 plugin for orkut
 parses it in (but doesn't export it yet)
 (just a minor violation of the Orkut terms of service)
Jonathan
 - guidelines for services
 - avoid public search of private data
    - avoid using private data as constraints on a public search
 - you can look at somebody's profile and see what their zip code is by searching for 
 people in their zip code [restrict search to that zip code, change yours, etc.]
 
- bookmarklet for looking for a name on Friendster
- sniff wireless traffic for email addresses and show Friendster profiles

Kevin Marks and Tantek Çelik
- real world semantics
http://tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html
- aka lowercase semantic web [not Semantic Web, RDF, OWL, etc.]
- semantic xhtml
- adaption by "real people"
- idea: simple semantics instead of re-creating your data
- evolutionary not revolutionary
- user-centric design
- design for humans first
- kill presentational tags: replace <b> with <strong>
- use CSS for display
- bloggers are starting to understand this
 - <p>, <h3>, marking up permalinks
- XFN: add a rel="" attribute to hyperlinks
- creative commons: easy: <link rel="license" href="http://...." />
- semantic xhtml example: outlines
 - use XOXO to a list, plus CSS to disply
 - http://diveintomark.org/public/2004/01/...
 - rel=vote links: when you link to something say if you approve/disagree/neutral
   - technorati counts these
 - recommendations
 - syndication

Quinn
- what Don Norman said
- The Design of Everyday things
- Emotional design
 - 3 layers of interpreseting sensory data: visceral (fine dining), 
 behavioural (functional, cognitive), reflective (drive a hummer) 
    - visceral/reflective products are expensive
    - behavioural products can be commoditized
- Don Norman now likes pretty things
- really great design is always going to be loved and hated

CodeCon abstract

Mike on "scream"
music, sound
6 point surround system
generic components

Electric Sheep DVD video
 distributed computer animation set to music
 
 pizza break