Yes, foo is heavily male. On the other hand, the women here are so cool.

FWIW, there is going to be a session on the homogeneity of tech.

Om Malik, reporting on people pissed at not being invited, says that a bar camp is being planned as a more open version. Sounds like fun. (Tim O’Reilly agrees.) But how about a FooHer — or BarHim :) — camp? Now that sounds like fun. [Tags: foo05]

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After the big meeting where we filled up the 8′ x 4′ board with session topics, we got to hang out, talk, drink, play, retreat into the world of email, etc. It’s quite a social group.

I got to spend a long time talking with Paul Graham; we both used to work for Interleaf and have kept in touch intermittently through email, but I think we haven’t actually seen each other in many years — we couldn’t figure it out. Paul in person is as brilliant and eclectic as his essays. This summer he’s brought together and funded young coders who have interesting business ideas. One of the projects, Reddit, is a social news aggregation site — there’s a better explanation here — that helps with the fact (as Paul contended last night) that only maybe 30% of what what we read about what’s new comes from traditional news sources. Reddit is compact and bottom up, two big pluses. Very interesting site.

BTW, Aaron Swartz, who’s here, is another of Paul’s summer fundees. He’s posted a job offering notice on his blog. (He’s also got some great posts up, as usual.)

Also BTW, I drove up with Susan Crawford, another ridiculously multi-talented person for whom I have fathomless respect. We decided to combine our session ideas and lead a discussion on “How Fucked Are We?” about how the battle for Net freedom is going (my view: badly) and what we can do about it (e.g., Susan suggests a World Net Day on the model of Earth Day). (Note: The scatological title is a sign of my despair.)

I wandered around a bit, watching out for errant Segways and home-brew segways, pausing for a bit at a home-made still (no samples were ready yet), and then went into the tech room where people were organizing a game of Werewolf, which I had never played for. Then, at 1am (= 4am east coast time) I crawled into my tent at the edge of the O’Reilly lawn and actually fell asleep. [Technorati tags: foo05]

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The opening meeting of Foo is the only time we get together in a single room. After going through the rules, Tim has each of the 200+ of us stand up, say our name, our affiliation and three words to describe what we’re doing. Here are just a few of the three-word-phrases that struck me as interesting. (I’ve made no attempt to be representative):

Apple Kool-Aid Drinker
Social event calendaring
My VC’s heartburn
Calendars abusing javascript
Hacking reality
From an old media company person: Old media’s fucked
From a big company: Big companies suck
Making robotic porn
Better futures now
Early-investor VC: Revenue is destruction
Foo groupie. Foopie?
Technologies of cooperation
Avoiding technology policy
Internet crack dealer
Bytes against Bush
Activisim, metadata, diamond-polishing
Writer, coder, lover
Remembering together
Embedding Firefox: Hard
Please hire me
Routing around evil
I hate Javascript
Today’s my birthday
Autonomous electronic musicians
Massively collaborative gameplay
Is college necessary?

Maybe my favorite: Non-scalable introduction ceremonies (Mine: “Writing about taxonomy.”) [Technorati tags: foo05]

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Ashley Richards has posted the excellent speaker guidelines she wrote up for the BlogHer conference (pdf format).

The characterization of types of speakers who go bad is spot on:

Mockers

Interrupters

Know-It-Alls

Attackers

I think it’s a list worth extending. I’d add:

Droners

Shills

Smartest-Guy-in-the-Room

That last one may seem to be the same as the Know-It-All, but in my experience Know-It-Alls demonstrate their superiority by the quantity of their knowledge (and thus often become Droners) while Smartest-Guys-in-the-Room are happy to interject a single comment on every topic in order to show that they’ve thought more deeply than anyone else. (And, yes, I use the word “Guy” on purpose seems this seems to be a gender-based disorder.) [Tags: BlogHer AshleyRichards]

Staci Kramer at OJR has posted her excellent recap of the conference, and blogs about the conference and recapping it.

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I’m on family vacation or I’d be there instead of occasionally swimming alongside via the blogher tag. Sounds great. [Technorati tag: blogher]

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Loic has posted the iPod recording he made of the panel he moderated (and contributed to, of course) that consisted of Richard Edelman and me. He’s also posted my slides. (Note: it’s possible the PDF has substituted a default san serif font for my handwriting-as-truetype font.) Thanks, Loic!

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Quick before it goes behind the Boston Globe pay wall, you can read Scott Kirsner’s Supernova primer:

…the conversation was thick with concepts and terms that may be familiar to those who marinate daily in the blogosphere, but are novel to those of us who are still retrograde enough to read (or write for) an ink-on-dead-trees publication. Let me try to explain a few

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Irina leaves the serious content blogging to others and instead presents the lighter side of the Berkman ILAW conference now underway… [Technorati tags: ilaw berkman]

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I’m actually getting to sit in on a session at Supernova. John Seely-Brown is talking about the themes of his book with John Hagel, The Only Sustainable Edge. For an excellent overview and probing of these themes, see Kevin Werbach’s interview of the co-authors at Knowledge@Wharton.

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A whole load of v-blogs from Supernova are up. I interviewed a bunch of interesting people, including Jonathan Schwartz (Sun), Hossein Eslambolchi (AT&T), Mena Trott (6 Apart), Chris Anderson (Wired), Lili Cheng (Microsoft), Da Scoble (Microsoft), Peter Quintas (SolidSpace), Scott Kirsner (Boston Globe) , John Patrick (IBM, ret), and more. (C-NET has started posting them as well.) [Technorati tag: supernova2005]

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