Night Life Reprogrammed - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 Aug 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  Everything is more intense in NYC, including the geek or nerd "party" scene (meet ups, tweet ups, "ignite" events, etc.). More people = more capital, in terms of creative energy and innovation. (And perhaps headaches... but that's another story...!)
  
  Of course I'd love to figure out how to sustain a mini-version of this right here (Victoria). Vancouver works very hard at it -- but even in Vancouver (I'm told), it's the same people reappearing at the different events (i.e., nowhere near the critical mass of larger US metros). Part of the problem is enticing people to come out -- it's so easy to stay home, after all...

  nyt creative_class geek socialtheory ignite meet_ups

  • IgniteNYC was just one of 12 tech events listed that evening
  • Now, young Internet entrepreneurs, some holdouts from the old days and a few members of the city’s creative class (and underclass) are engaged in a new type of party, which mashes together Silicon Alley 1.0’s camaraderie and optimism, meetup.com’s spontaneity and informality, Burning Man’s home-brewed creativity, and a technology conference’s devotion to unveiling ideas.
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  • • These days many of the ideas are about producing and delivering video content.

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        Yule Heibel on 2008-08-04

        - interesting, with "prediction" aspects...?

    • some are just attracted to a night life that involves actually talking to creative people doing exciting things, rather than heading out to clubs and bars that beat you into silence with their thundering rhythms.

      “Instead of just going out to drink and be bored,” said Ilana Arazie, whose video blog, Downtown Diary, chronicles her love life, “you’re talking to interesting people who are starting companies and telling great stories.”

    • 16 speakers made PowerPoint presentations. Each was allowed 20 slides that auto-advanced after 15 seconds — five minutes total — a modified version of a format pioneered in Japan called “Pecha Kucha,” loosely translated as chitchat.

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  Yule Heibel on 2008-08-04
  - interesting, with "prediction" aspects...?

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