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Tim is always inspiring.
Love the way he puts the big picture around the details that most are focusing on.
The only discontinuity is his urging us to move beyond throwing sheep when some of the key note speakers represent frivolous pursuits. But then Dan Lyons totally rocks!
This was a really great talk. We are crafting a new world on the web and Tim reminds us that we should look for those things that are truly important and generate value for those downstream.
Truly wonderful - just gives hope for all the possibilities. And ideas to share with future web 2.0 contributors - hoping to share the video with the students on-campus.
Despite of being an usual O'Reilly books reader, I hadn't attended a Tim's session before. It was truly inspiring and motivating. Stuff that matters. Thanks Tim, hope to meet you again at Malaga's conference next month.
I agree completely with the message - do something that matters - I have been totally mortified by the binine use of the social web to date, for the most part, and the message needs to come from the top. this is why i am working on a business which takes the level of conversation and the value of community to a whole new level. i do have to say one thing, however, which is i don't think the conference should be a political platform - but i guess it is tim's conference so he can do what he wants.
Stephanie --
I don't think that I used this session as a political platform. I did say that I was an Obama supporter, but my message was primarily that people should vote, regardless of their convictions. I went out of my way to give a URL for people to register that was non-partisan, and urged people to learn about the issues and get involved. And it was less than two minutes at the end of my talk.
Arianna, well that was another matter. I'll respond to your other comment over there.
I agree with Stephanie - leave the political agenda for another stage. Focus on why we've attended, Web 2.0
although i liked the keynote, i felt that the theme just got more and more blurry, it was more of a political environmental thingie. As for the plastic bottles, Perhaps an Idea would be to use the german model where cans and bottles are collected at stores and youget money back for and then the bottles are washed and reused by the different breweries.
Pete -
I think you miss the point about the plastic bottle. Recycling them only changes the energy footprint a little. The point is that the disposable culture we take for granted is going to come to an end. We need some big changes - starting with really tracking the energy web, so to speak, which is an information problem of the first order. Sorry it wasn't as clear as it could be. My point was that there's a big problem here, and that a lot of money is going to be made solving it. What's more, it's a very web 2.0 problem - instrumenting the world and creating applications that make sense of the intelligence that is gathered. I don't think it's an accident that Google is investing in this space - they do understand something here that a lot of folks involved in the silly side of Web 2.0 ought to be paying more attention to.
So while this might not have seemed connected to web 2.0, I think it is actually central to the future of Web 2.0. I'll need to continue working on this talk to make the connections clearer.
While I generally enjoy Tim's speeches and I really liked the theme of "doing something of value" I was discouraged with the closing political commentary. It would have been more compelling to leave it with the call to action; I don't go to business meetings to discuss or debate politics.
I came to this conference to learn and be exposed to new things related to Web 2.0. The interjection of Tim's political views was not what I was expecting and was unwelcomed. This was my first O'Reilly conference and if the political statements that were made in both this session and the Huffington session are the norm, I won't be attending another.
I enjoyed the talk, but FWIW, my political views are closely aligned to Tim's :)
I attended expecting to gain some technical knowledge but instead was subjected to a lot of political fluff. I wonder how Tim would feel if he brought his car to a Jiffy Lube and got it back with a McCain/Palin Sticker. I'm sure he would appreciate the mechanic explaining his political views to him.
For the record, I'm undecided and the technical education part was pretty decent.
Thank you
This was the highlight of the conference for me. Yes, my political views align with Tim's, but I think the message of working on projects that make a difference politically, ecologically, socially, etc, rather then building more mindlessly entertaining fluff is right on target -- regardless of which side you vote for. Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" comes to mind when I review when I think of the current web 2.0 social software.
Don't have much opinion on the political stuff, but to me, Tim's talk was inspiring and motivating, reminding us about our social (media) responsibility and the need to channel our energy and creativity into things that really matter.... And I am totally with him on that.
We should absolutely be working on things that matter. Great talk.
Awesome! Completely motivating and inspiring!