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The Ben and Mena Show…

So… the “big story” to come out of the recent Les Blogs 2.0 conference was “The Ben and Mena Show”. If you’ve an eye for trivia, you will know all about it by now. What happened was the following. Mena Trott - President of Six Apart - was giving a talk. Ben Metcalfe - project lead for the BBC Backstage Project - wrote in a real-time public forum, projected onto the main screen (behind Mena) during the talk, that he thought she was talking “bullshit”. Mena saw this and called Ben an “asshole” from the podium.

And the bizarre thing is: people really do seem to care about this (scroll down to the comments on the previous link - the seriousness with which people are taking this beggars belief - e.g. heated comments from the esteemed Dave Winer). But why? Two people were rude to each other. That’s it. End of story. Nevertheless, whatever the reasons people care, they do, and it’s the story from the conference. Wow! And I thought the Web 2.0 conference was weak… Remind me never to go to a Les Blogs conference!

Talk about things sometimes getting out of whack in the blogosphere…

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Comments

Asam Bashir wrote:

All this time and effort people put into writing their blogs, what happens to that when they die, the server space rewrites all the 1’s into 0’s when the subscription is not renewed. Its not like a book or a diary at the end of the day, nothing is left after a few cache updates. Is there a market out there for people to write and store their blogs to a space that can would guarantee to make it available on the web 2.0 or web 200.0.? An eternal blogosphere, write and be google’able when you’re dead, you might be six feet under but your words are still available to content providers. Stick a wifi/bluetooth server in you’re headstone so if someone comes to visit you you can download their blog and really get to know what that great great grandfather was about.

Or how about storing a copy of your blog on your java bluetooth enabled phone, so whenever you’re near a like minded blogger your software settings could upload/download with that person, bit like vcards, but swap blogs.

Just a thought

Posted 13 Dec 2005 at 6:24 am ¶
simon wrote:

Hey Asam, that’s a bit off-topic! But, there are thinks like the Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org/ ) which are aiming to preserve digital history…

Posted 13 Dec 2005 at 4:03 pm ¶

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