Comments on: BloggerCon Dessert http://listics.com/20060625334 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Tue, 07 Nov 2024 13:04:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Jon Husband http://listics.com/20060625334#comment-1197 Sat, 01 Jul 2024 16:57:04 +0000 http://listics.com/20060625334#comment-1197 Frank .. imo you nailed it re: unconferences. I'm at Gnomedex right now, watching DW up on the stage. He IS indeed a controlling personality. I've long thought he's working out his personal conflicts in public .. he's got a link to an article he wrote titled Monoculture: An artificat of the 20th century, and he's always on about users, decentralization, distributed this and that .. and of course he has done so very much to make that happen. AND, I think that is truly how we want to "BE" in the world, and continues to struggle towards trying to convince everyone he is so, when his basic personality mitigates against that .... Watching him move through the world, at conferences like this and on his blog, is (for me) like watching him have an argument with himself in public, aided and abetted by body language and and impulse-driven social skills. Frank .. imo you nailed it re: unconferences.

I’m at Gnomedex right now, watching DW up on the stage. He IS indeed a controlling personality. I’ve long thought he’s working out his personal conflicts in public .. he’s got a link to an article he wrote titled Monoculture: An artificat of the 20th century, and he’s always on about users, decentralization, distributed this and that .. and of course he has done so very much to make that happen. AND, I think that is truly how we want to “BE” in the world, and continues to struggle towards trying to convince everyone he is so, when his basic personality mitigates against that ….

Watching him move through the world, at conferences like this and on his blog, is (for me) like watching him have an argument with himself in public, aided and abetted by body language and and impulse-driven social skills.

]]> by: Ronni Bennett http://listics.com/20060625334#comment-1100 Tue, 27 Jun 2024 10:21:56 +0000 http://listics.com/20060625334#comment-1100 Whew! What a relief to read some of the stuff I've been thinking about conferences for a long time. Well done, Frank. There is some excellent takeaway - uh, learning - in this piece. Whew! What a relief to read some of the stuff I’ve been thinking about conferences for a long time. Well done, Frank. There is some excellent takeaway - uh, learning - in this piece.

]]> by: McD http://listics.com/20060625334#comment-1088 Mon, 26 Jun 2024 17:17:01 +0000 http://listics.com/20060625334#comment-1088 Frank, Thank you for going and documenting some of the behaviors around the event. I find the whole event fascinating and I would have dearly loved to attend but I know that I would have lost control at several points. All i would have to do was be linked to "McD" and it would have gotten interesting because I'm primed for conflict with Dave Winer, and Mike Arrington but I have tremendous respect for many that attended. As always, your writing is particularly observant, balanced and prudent. WWFD? Find the key learning in the experience and share that freely. Frank,

Thank you for going and documenting some of the behaviors around the event. I find the whole event
fascinating and I would have dearly loved to attend but I know that I would have lost control at several points. All i would have to do was be linked to “McD” and it would have gotten interesting because I’m primed for conflict with Dave Winer, and Mike Arrington but I have tremendous respect for many that attended.

As always, your writing is particularly observant, balanced and prudent.

WWFD? Find the key learning in the experience and share that freely.

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