Hi Teemu, in response to “I would be interested in if someone knows about some other cool non-traditional face-to-face methods or some creative uses of social technologies at events that I have missed. Anything interesting coming to mind? – check out Brian Reynold’s inventions and ideas that are all linked to his blog below.

http://yjaman.blogspot.com/

We have a lot of the bottom-up ideas on our near-term roadmap. First and foremost we had to make it possible to create events, browse events and find people participating in various events. Better use of APIs to connect to various other services, bottom-up self-organizing aspects of creating events and many others are among our next steps. But before continuing towards that goal, we have to get feedback from the community. I personally believe in user-centered design.

plz, hire designers and people into ux/ixd who can turn it to an actual software product/service which is worth to be given its own name and visual identity? the obvious feature creep also makes it hard to take bantora seriously.

My name is Katina, I’m from Chile (South America), I speak Spanish (so, sorry about my written English, my speaking is better!!!). Anyway, like you know, I did a lot of steps before to get here. The last, was to “clik” in a link (in one Sapnish web) and then I kenw about your “Homus Contextus”.

I believe a lot of people, like you and me, are just now thinking about the whole ciber space and how te live off line and on line in a good way… But you imagined a perfect Name!!! So, I came to visit you, and I saw you are so joung!!! (I’m 36, very old in comparation with you). Well I think you are doing a wonderful job. And I wanted to tell it to you.

Ah, I’m an editor. I mean, some people ask me to correct there peace of wirtting. Sometime I do also journalistic job. Well, just now I’m helping a thesis for a futur translator. We chose the theme “translation multimedia”. So I was researching bibliography about it, about web 2.0, and… well I got “Homus-Context” and… It was very very instersting for me, it made me curious and I came to see you… So, Thankyou for your whole job. It is really amazing.

Cariños desde Chile!!!!

Katina

Here’s a blog post I read today about back channel usage during presentations and how it can benefit the audience and also the presenter. http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-presentations/

Two-way creation of events and “the long tail of events” is one of the most interesting thoughts here, I think. The idea that people can pool their (sometimes) unusual interests and gather around that has been on my mind a lot lately, and I’ve started developing a two-way-creation-of-school-curriculum -concept (using Ning at the moment) for a bunch of edu-organizers here i Helsinki. The idea is basically that of crowd-sourcing: instead of having edu-personnel trying to figure out what people in the crowd would like to do (i.e what courses to take, what hobbies to develop etc.) you let students-to-be create that themselves. The role of the edu-organizer is to arrange the means (i.e facilities, expertise, infra, economy). So if I want to, say, learn the basics of national-economy, I can pool up with others with the same interest and when there’s enough of us, a school offers us the course!

I agree that the line should be drawn between digital and analogue, and then, when it has been drawn, erased. We still need, I think, consider a few points about ourselves here.

If the crowd sets the agenda, who is “responsible”? If we don’t want to use that concept, why not? (I don’t have answers to this, by the way)

If one of the primary functions of education is to initiate people into a certain, common way of thinking (that is, a kind of conditioning), which it obviously is, then what follows from this new culture. Is it a ethically self-regulating system? I have a feeling it is going in the “right” direction, but much is open to questions.