I spent all day down in San Jose at IBM’s Almaden Research Center doing citizen journalism reports for Dan Gillmor and his Bayosphere site. Here are my two writeups:
The future of portable computing
It was a fun, enervating and educational day — but also a bit exhausting.
Bayosphere is a Drupal site, and I apparently posted the first video they’ve ever run. Unfortunately, the administrator under-the-hood stuff is very geeky, so Dan is scrambling to rework the code so the site supports QuickTime movies.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
The topic for NPUC 2004 was What do you do with waaay too much information?, and copyright issues were central to the discussion then. I think this crowd is generally interested in these issues, but they weren’t seen as being central to portable computing in particular (that is, no more central than they are to non-portable computing).