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Current TV: Vote for Barcamp OrlandoNovember 20 2007

matt mansfield sent me an link to an awesome video documenting Orlando’s first Barcamp. like all things peer-produced, the video needs your support to make it on tv. that’s right TV!

many kudos to jason and team for producing a lovely, eye catching video that promotes the barcamp revolution!

BarCamp Buenos Aires trip reportOctober 4 2007

On September 29th, I went to BarCamp Buenos Aires, my third BarCamp. I posted a brief 2500-word trip report to “kragen-journal”, a sort of mailing list pretending to be a blog, and I’m reposting a lightly edited version of it here at Chris’s invitation.

This is my third Bar Camp, and the smallest and shortest one I’ve been to so far, but in some ways, also one of the most inspiring.

Photo by fabio.com.ar

Went to Bar Camp Buenos Aires today. Quite a number of surprises.

It was at Microsoft Buenos Aires, which appears to be purely a marketing organization, except that it has a server room with some Compaq rackmount equipment in it, apparently to impress visitors.

I never expected to have my passport checked by guys in dark suits in order to come either to Microsoft or to a Bar Camp. Because I didn’t successfully register on the web site before coming, I had to wait for about ten minutes (chatting with one of the event organizers) in order to get in. (Apparently the office is of fairly limited capacity, so registration was capped at 150. Hearsay says about 400 other people weren’t abl

BarCampBlock: Immortalized in a Scrapbook!August 23 2007

We really really love Alex de Carvelho’s Scrapblog of his experience at BarCampBlock last weekend! Awesome, Alex!

Setting up your own BarCamp PhotoboothAugust 21 2007

I’ve tried to get an iSight photobooth set up at previous BarCamps only to run into technical challenges or lack of interest. It was also probably not the best idea to leave a personal laptop lying around in the middle of an event open to the public when really your only goal is to capture photos of attendees primarily for posterity.

At BarCampBlock I renewed my determination and decided to lug down the Citizen Space Mac Mini, our 21″ Cinema Display, a keyboard, mouse and an old skool iSight to make it happen. You can check out our simple setup in the photo above.

Getting the system setup wasn’t that hard, especially with the reliable mesh network the folks from Meraki had setup for us. I used an app called Flickrbooth (written by Tristan O’Tierney in response to a lazyweb request I had put out in January of 2006) to upload the photos di

Open Grid + “Unconference” format for BlogPhiladelphiaMay 22 2007

If you’re in Philadelphia, or have been looking for an excuse to visit us, you should think about coming to BlogPhiladelphia on July 12 and 13th. The focus is social media, specifically blogging, but the conference is open to anyone and is completely free. We’ll be taking over the Radisson Plaza Warwick Hotel in Center City Philadelphia, which has been recently renovated and sits right on Rittenhouse Square which will provide some beautiful outdoor space for conversations should the weather permit.

The event will follow a hybrid model, similar to Web2.Open, with pre-scheduled speakers and session leaders, along with a Barcamp-style open grid presentation venue. The general concept shared between both is “encourage conversation”.

I’m working on the organizer to include a wiki and some other mechanisms on the website, along with the current sign up form, to encourage more pre-conference interaction.

For the benefit of those traveling in (from the press release):

To make this informational conference as accessible as possible for bloggers and non-bloggers alike, ther