Andrea Vascellari

Episode: VMC #135 – Good Time with Robert Scoble and Doc Searls

Now that I moved my site to new servers and my company to new office I finally have the time to jump back on the editing of some videos.

I still have tons of tracks to release but today I wanted to publish this one. At the end of my last video chat with Robert we were really happy to meet Doc Searls so we kept recording for few additional minutes.

Doc is one of co-authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com) together with David Weinberger (remember this video? ) Rick Levine and Christopher Locke.

This informal and relaxed chat we had gives you pretty much the idea of what happens if you leave three passionate people in front of a camera sharing their thoughts on tech, business and communication.

The conversation went viral spacing from new possibilities in China, to friendfeed & twitter, to tech & innovation.

Enjoy it!

@Robert @Doc: Hope to see you soon again guys… A big hug!

Andrea

Show Notes & Credits: Le Web, Robert’s Blog, Doc’s Blog, David’s Blog, Cluetrain Manifesto, cluetrain.com.

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Live blogged session from DLD Conference (Munich, Germany)

David Weinberger (Harvard University)

We’ll talk about knowledge because it plays and important role in our society especially when it scarce.

What knowledge is?
In our society knowledge is simple. There’s a single order and things follow that order. Knowledge evolved from the times of ancient greeks. Knowledge exists as a scarce resource. Another really interesting aspect is that it’s not a case that the knowledge reflects the characteristics of its medium, the books.

We are living in a world where connectivity became really important. So let’s take the Amozon Kindle as an example to understand how books and knowledge are evolving. People have access to knowledge and are able to connect with other people at the same time.

We are dealing much better with the abundance of crap than we do with the abundance of good stuff. Society is not build for the abundance of good stuff.

People already have twittered this morning 7000 times – this system does not scale, control does not scale either.

We changed our strategy: Let’s gather everything, it is cheaper to include than to exclude.
If you keep all articles on Britney Spears you will be scared to look at the results.

Things worth knowing does not include everything. Yes you do miss stuff – but that is a good thing. It is a cleaning process.

Links have their dimension too and are generous.  From each webpage you have a high number of links. In this abundance era there’s is an abundance of links. In the same ways works online contribution, think about Wikipedia. Wikipedia acknowledge its own value. It’s socializing with knowledge, talking with a human voice and not with a media voice that would make lose its authority.

So what characterize knowledge in this modern era? It’s not just the network itself, it’s about us, it’s about humans. Today the Internet is a more profound reflection of our society.

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Episode: VMC #95 – David Weinberger

Show Notes & Credits: Le Web, David Weinberger, Cluetrain Manifesto, cluetrain.com

Andrea

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Next week I’ll be in Paris for LeWeb! I’m one of their official bloggers so I’ll bring you the best of keynotes, panels and updates from the venue. I’m also planning to record some special episodes with:

• Jason Calacanis
• Loïc Le Meur
• Robert Scoble
• Michael Arrington
• Fred Wilson
• Mike Butcher
• David Weinberger
• Hugh MacLeod

So do you have any questions you want me to ask them when they’ll sit in front of my camera? Write them in the comment section.

UPDATE: I noticed that 99% of the questions are coming in through other platforms. So keep sending them also via Twitter, Jaiku, FriendFeed, and Seesmic.

Andrea

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