I spent the latter part of last week attending the Creating Value: Between Commons and Commerce conference organised by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. The CCi conference was here in Brisbane – at the Convention Centre over at Southbank – but it was evidently a bumper week for conferences and fora related to blogging – with Canberra hosting a Microsoft Politics & Technology Forum and PDF2008 (“Personal Democracy Forum”) taking place in New York.
I’ll be writing something up later in the week on what I gleaned from the CCi conference, but in the meantime, for anyone interested in the interfaces between citizen journalism, blogging, new media and online technologies and platforms, there is, of course, a lot of reading material available on the web. The Microsoft thing seems the least blogged – and perhaps that’s because rather oddly, political bloggers were largely left off the invite list – though I did hear that Annabel Crabb launched a memorable attack on us in absentia. Unfortunately there were no “sketch writers” present to record it. But Axel Bruns at Snurb has posted a comprehensive coverage of many of the key sessions of CCi, and Terry Flew and Jason Wilson also provide some information and commentary. Over in the Big Apple, Tim Watts from Tree of Knowledge has done a sterling job reflecting on some of the sessions he attended at PDF2008.
Both the CCI Conference and Microsoft’s Forum on Politics and Technology were excellent events. If you’re looking for information on the Microsoft forum, Stilgherrian was on twitter for the event and you can read his tweets here. Solidariti also blogged about the forum here.
If you’re looking for information on days 2 and 3 of the CCI Conference I was twittering the event and you can read my tweets here.
Thanks very much for the links, Peter.
The panels were largely blogger-unfriendly, which surprised me. I’m sure we would have gotten a more sophisticated analysis of Australian political blogging if there had been a blogger on the second panel.
Andrew Bartlett was a panelist and posted about the event on his blog.
I wasn’t there as a reporter, but I did blog a few comments here:
http://sarah-stokely.livejournal.com/8521.html