Sent.-in Audio files from participants of Reboot (links later, I do have to fetch a train *cough*). See you in Copenhagen!

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Tom Armitage's talk is titled "What social software can learn from Homer, Dickens, and Marvel Comics".

With him I talk about what this means, narrative impulses and parallel expression of yourself and why people at reboot may be more playful than others. Read his speaker entry on the wiki or visit his blog.

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Martin Röll will not only be holding a conversation together with Ton Zijlstra and Lee Bryant but also facilitate a session titled "Consultants Session".

Read his speaker entry on the wiki or visit his blog.

Shownotes, courtesy of Martin (I should make all of my interview guest do this ;)):

• 00:00 On the Consultants' Session, Issues around Technology and Web X.0 consulting. "Selling without selling out."


• 05:00 On the Diversity Session


• 06:30 "What has changed for you since last reboot?" I talk about how my consulting work around social software has changed.


• 08:45 We get all excited that even the Germans got it. ;-) I share an anecdote from a seminar I gave to German communication professionals.

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Dannie Jost tells about Intellectual Properties, simple patents, why the question needs to be "what is it that we really need to protect this knowledge?", the gaps of knowledge with many people talking about these topics, limitations of Creative Commons, and if the guys in suit like the coming change.

Read her speaker entry on the wiki or visit her blog.

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While preparing the rest of the interviews I do have here - everything will be online tomorow morning because then I do start travelling to CPH ;) - I would like to give you the chance to tell your fellow rebooters "Why are you coming to reboot or who would you like to meet"? Send me an audio file to neezee under gmail.com and I will include it in the audio I finish problably midnight (at GMT+2) ;)

Or just write about it on your blog and make sure to use the reboot8 tag!

Robert Willim talks about being an ethnologist, his Phd about the rise and fall of Framfab, organizational challenges, if there are differences between the dot com bubble and today, why many people are still using dinosaur applications like Word, and his suggestions on reading materials.

His reading tips included "Lev Manovich on visual culture and new media and Andreas Wittel on "network sociality". He adds: I think he has only published pieces on this in journals... but the stuff may be "googleable"

Robert is given a talk about "I'm taking a ride - curve surfing and speed mania"

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Euan Semple talks about his work at the BBC and the grass root approach of turning them towards 'modern technology', what he today is passionate about, the human desire to "connect" and the change in the way we see ourselves, the dead hand of control of global IT and what motivated him to talk about

"There's something going on here that is bigger than any of us. (A hopeless idealist considers hyperlinks, organisations, life, the universe and everything.)"

Going on about Enlightenment, 'the obvious', why it is appropriate (and efficient) to engage and connect even in a business context, about trust in people you hire, why he gets less comfortable with mass media.

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Jeremy Keith, usually on conferences to talk about code and javascript, wants to praise the basic building block of the Web: the hyperlink.

Favorite quote:
What brought you to web design / javascript?
Because I was playing in a band

Read his speaker entry on the wiki for more information or visit his blog.

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Living a life as a passionate knowledge management consultant Ton Zijlstra and I talk about knowledge worker, the (not?) existing differences in Europe, the dutch mentality of managing relationships, how to leverage diversity, the idea of a European 360 degree feedback round, and his talk at reboot "Diversity as engine for a European innovative culture" which he will be hosting together with Lee Bryant and Martin Röll (see also his post on this topic).

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Alexander Kjerulf is not only a "Chief Happiness Officer" but would also like to reboot democracy!

Read his reboot wiki page for more information or visit his blog.

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It is Reboot time again! I think most people who where there last year just want to be there this year. And of course my first interview guest is again organizer Thomas Madsen-Mygdal :)

Over the next three days I will put out some more interviews in a farely short manor, but my time was restricted due to the organizing of the Podcastday (see last posting).

Enjoy the interview!

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Over the last weeks I have been busy preparing the Podcastday 2006, which I was co-organizing as well as moderating a panel. It was happening as part of a bigger conference (Mediaforum NRW), and it was completly in German. Over 400 people visited 12 panels in three tracks and the list of speakers shows the diversity we where able to get.

The combination was a rather interesting one - traditional media meets podcasting, and we got most of the press for some quotes of some of the big shots of traditional media. Of course, not everybody was happy - the media guys fear the new media, the business guys just want to know how to monetize this and the more private podcasters are not interested in the other two groups and just want to party. Which is totally okay with me, but it seems as if we need to find a different way for the third group to be able to celebrate and have fun! :)

If you understand German, you can follow the pre conference podcasts Thomas Wanhoff and I did together or listen to the panels.

The organizers of the main event where very satisfied with what was achieved through the Podcastday and we are already talking about Podcastday 2007. Next Medienforum is supposed to be 17-19th of June 2007. And yes, we will have translators for everybody again. ;)

Added: If you like some impressions from the day, take a listen to Chris Vallence snapshot of the day with some German podcasters.

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By the time I did the Reboot 7 interviews, I posted them on my english blog cruel to be kind under a dedicated site.

So if you would like to hear them, please visit the ctbk reboot page!