Yesterday and today were given over to the Reboot, 
a European meet-up of the mash-up of society and communication and technology (with a fairly strong tilt to technology). Two days of bang bang bang sessions punctuated networking, getting acquainted and getting to grips (sort of) with where micromedia is leading us.
I didn’t blog directly, but many others did (not all results will be about the conference but pick around). I do better waiting for the serendipity to happen.
I’ll post highlights as I get my head around them. Here’s the first in a series:
We don’t have the tools is OUT as an excuse
Dina Mehta‘s presentation used as its case example the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog Dina helped organize. Incredible. The team used free (or nearly so) collaborative tools (Skype, IM, IRC) to put together a blog that attracted 1 million visits in the first week. And as the contributions and comments to the blog began (quickly) to become unwieldy, they created sub-blogs, and then a wiki to categorize the information.
The team was flat, without titles, with immense passion and, apparently little recourse to sleep. What’s key here is that drive and brains and a willingness to collaborate, not expensive tools and committees, created this site.
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Dina Mehta at Reboot
Dina Mehta is talking about Social Tools. She’s begun with a moving set of pictures, where she’s been working in the field using blogs, wiki’s, Skype etc. Dina’s shared via some posts on the Skype Journal her desire to apply more of these tools to enha…