BlogTalkVienna

BlogTalk 2.0

BlogTalkViennaNotes (collaborative effort, please contribute! Wiki-formatting badly needed. Originally SubEthaEdit notes.)

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Souvenir: http://www.roell.net/weblog/archiv/2004/07/07/blogtalk_some_signatures.shtml

Roll Call

• Anne Bartlett-Bragg

• Stephanie Booth aka bunnywabbit_

• Suw Charman

• Riccardo Cambiassi aka bru

• Horst Prillinger aka horstp

• Lilia Efimova

• Sebastian Fiedler

• Ton Zijlstra

• Elmine Wijnia

• Adalbert Duda aka ad++

• Fernando Tricas

• Heiko Hebig

• Maarten Schenk

• Mario Sixtus

• Thomas Marban

• JJ Merelo

• Mark Bernstein

• Helge Fahrnberger

• Ralf Graf

• Bjoern Ognibeni

• Sven Latham

• Nico Lumma

• Martin Roell

• Jon Hoem

• Loic Le Meur

• Michael Schuster aka smi

• Jan Schmidt

• Ben Trott

• Mena Trott

• Jane Perrone

• Gabriela Avram

• Paolo Valdemarin

• Anu Gupta

• Siegfried Hirsch

• Georg Niklfeld

• Gerhard Dreschler

• Gerd Stodiek

• Matthias L. Jugel

• Stephan J. Schmidt

• Clemens Lerche

• Philipp Naderer

• Flemming Funch

• Phil Wolff

• Barbara Ganley

• Lee Bryant

• Roland Tanglao

• Dorota Smyk-Bhattacharjee

• Matt Mower

• Can Sar

• Desiree Gosby aka Songlian

• Omar Green

• Malte Diedrich

• Mark Brady

• Thomas Hassan

People's Schedules and Stuff

Anne Bartlett-Bragg

• Just arrived in London from Sydney (Australia) - arriving Vienna 3rd

• departing 6th

• particuarly interested in blogs for enhanced learning - currently working on my PhD in this area and using blogs as a pedagogical strategy in all my subjects (I'm a lecturer in the Education Faculty - Uni of Technology Sydney)

Stephanie Booth

• July 2nd morning (I'm there!) until 6th evening

• staying at hotel Atlas (325)

• mobile +41786254474 (sms, please don't call, incoming calls cost me an arm and a leg)

• bunny_vienna on freenode and will be on Rendez-Vous

• interested in weblogs as narrative/representation of self, weblogs in education or as a teamwork tool; also interested in linguistic issues related to weblogs (fragmentation of the blogosphere through language barriers, multi-lingual weblogs...)

Suw Charman

• arriving July 3rd

• departing July 9th

• Am particularly interested in meeting anyone involved in EFF/Creative Commons/copyright/copyleft/DRM sorts of issues, or minority language issues

Riccardo Cambiassi

• arriving July 5th

• leaving July 7th early morning

• am particularly interested in meeting people from #joiito and of course anyone interested in Social Software / Social Networks AND Knowledge Management AND Creative Commons too.

Horst Prillinger

• living in Vienna

• am interested in talking about blogs/online diaries (where's the boundary?) as media of the masses rather than for the masses and the cultural/interpersonal impact of making part of your private life public

• * care to meet up Fri afternoon or Sat? -- Steph aka bunny

• * busy on Fri afternoon, meeting Suw at airport Sat noon, but available later. -- H.

Lilia Efimova

• will be there 3-7 July

• BlogWalk 3.0 on 4 July

• interested in: weblogs in personal knowledge management, weblog research in general, sightseeing on 7th

Sebastian Fiedler

• arriving probably on July 3

• with Ton and Lilia I will stage Salon BlogWalk 3.0 on 4 July ... as always BlogWalk is invitation only... so make sure to get in contact with Ton (blogwalk3 at zylstra.demon.nl) if you think you should be invited

• departure undecided... not before July 7.

Ton Zijlstra

• arriving evening July 2nd

• departure July 10th

• with Sebastian and Lilia I will stage Salon BlogWalk 3.0 on 4 July ... as always BlogWalk is invitation only... so make sure to get in contact with me (blogwalk3 at zylstra.demon.nl) if you think you should be invited

• rented apartment

Elmine Wijnia

• arriving evening July 2nd

• departure July 10th

• rented apartment

Adalbert Duda

• living in Vienna

• I am interested in talking about how to increase the value of blogs for you and your readers and how to grow your readership; motives behind continuing blogging and the ups & downs bloggers face; hope to meet many interesting people

Fernando Tricas

• Arriving evening July 3nd

• Departure July 7th, early morning

• Living at Atlas hotel

• Joining BlogWalk 3.0 on 4 July

Heiko Hebig

• will be there 4-6 July

• BlogWalk 3.0 on 4 July

• Watching the EURO 2004 Finale at some sports bar

• staying at Atlas

Maarten Schenk

• will be there 5-6 July (arriving around Monday noon or later)

• Atlas hotel

• I will finally get to meet my new colleagues of Six Apart in the flesh

• Interested in learning more about new ways of convincing people to blog; how blogs and regular media can interact; where the future of blogging is heading (moblogging, videoblogging...)

Mario Sixtus

• will arrive on 4th afternoon

• Will also stay at the Atlas Hotel (Yesterday their phone was broken but you can book by email)

• Would like to watch the EURO finale with some nice people. (Hello Heiko, let's get in touch)

• When someone wants to phone me: +49 171 685 99 08

JJ Merelo

• Already here, arrived the 3rd, will leave on 7th

• Staying at Atlas

• Count me on for the euro finals.

• Where«s the WiFi?

Mark Bernstein

• July 3 (afternoon) -> July 10

• staying at Atlas

Helge Fahrnberger

• Living in Vienna

• Interested to hear expectations and experiences in mobile blogging, generally curious

Ralf Graf

• Arriving July 3rd

• Departing July 10th

• Staying at Kunsthof Reichshof

Bjoern Ognibeni

• will be there 4-6 July

• BlogWalk 3.0 on 4 July

• staying at Pension City

Sven Latham

• Arriving July 4; leaving July 7

• Staying at Hotel KŠrntnerhof

Nico Lumma

• will be there 4-7 July

• Attending BlogEuro 04 at some sportsbar or Portugese Tapas bar...

• staying at Atlas

Martin Roell

• arriving on Saturday July 3rd in the afternoon (Air Berlin flight from Berlin)

• is in for the karaoke

• Staying at Atlas (until Tuesday)

• BlogWalk 3.0 on July 4th

• Giving a talk on Weblogs in KM on Tuesday (http://www.blogtalk.net/program.html)

• leaving on Thursday evening July 8th

Jon Hoem

• Arriving - 3rd in the afternoon

• Staying at Atlas

• No plans, but are probably walking the city on the 4th. Have to see the EURO Final somewhere

- care to walk part of the city together on 4th? I'm at Atlas too. Message/e-mail/SMS me if you'd like to -- Steph

• Departure - 6th, evening

Michael Schuster

• Always there, as I live there

• No plans for 4th July

• Informal Get together organized by Knallgrau on 5th July, at Gasthaus zur Stadt Krems (Details)

Jan Schmidt

• Arriving 4th July in the morning

• BlogWalk 3.0 on 4 July

• watching the Euro Final somewhere

• staying at Hotel Atlas

• Departure 6th July evening

Gabriela Avram

• Arriving on July 3rd in the evening

• Departure on July 6th in the evening

• Staying at Atlas hotel

• Joining BlogWalk 3.0 on 4 July

Jane Perrone

• Arriving afternoon of July 3

• BlogTalk presentation on morning of 4 July

• staying at Hotel Atlas

• Departure morning of July 7

Anu Gupta

• arriving evening of Saturday July 3rd

• BlogWalking on Sunday 4th July [will hopefully get to watch the Euro2004 final]

• departing morning of Wednesday July 7th

• staying at conference hotel - Atlas

• mobile number [SMS only please !] +44 7940 087 061

Siegfried Hirsch

• arriving Saturday July 3rd maybe in the afternoon

• BlogWalk 3.0 on Sunday 4th July

• departing on Tuesday 6th July evening or morning of Wednesday July 7th

• staying at a little outside because of hotel preferences

• especially interested in wiki/weblog combinations

Gerhard Dreschler and Georg Niklfeld

• we're Vienna-based at Kapsch and ftw. respectively

• interested in discussing ideas on mobile blogging + demoing our highly experimental prototype

Gerd Stodiek

• there from July 4-6

• staying with Nick

• looking forward to meeting bloggers who move beyond the digital

• could use some tips on CSS from savvy designers

Clemens Lerche

• arriving 3rd from Berlin - 7th

• staying at atlas

• interested in weblogs and politics (eCampagning), unconvinced yet, that blogs will change too much

Philipp Naderer

• living in Amstetten (Lower Austria), will take the train

• at the moment HTL-Student in St. Pšlten

• interested in weblogs, mobile blogging, new media and publishing technologies in combination with Java

• other interests: XHTML and CSS / Java / Apple-Computers

Flemming Funch

• http://ming.tv, ffunch-at-cr8.com, ICQ: 4429165

• interested in emergence, collective intelligence, the global brain, patterns, consciousness, life

• arriving the 4th, early evening. Leaving the 7th midday

• staying at Atlas hotel

• SMS: +33-689540722

Phil Wolff

• arrived 2 July. Leaving Thursday.

• at the atlas

• BlogWalk 3.0 on July 4th

• Deathly afraid of karaoke but will encourage others to sing

• London until the 15th. Speaking at the Social Tools in the Enterprise Symposium.

Barbara Ganley

• arrived July 2 (Taking in the phenomenonal museums). Leave Wednesday early.

• will be at the Atlas on Sunday

• will present on Tuesday about blogs in an American liberal arts college

• am interested in edublogging inparticular, and how blogging transforms the classroom, the student, the professor, and thus, the Academy.

• would like to attend Blogwalk3 if it's not too late to secure an invite....

- if you can't get to BlogWalk, care about tourist-walking the town? Interested in blogging/education too -- Steph

Lee Bryant

• arrived 3 July, leaving Weds; staying at the Atlas

• presenting on Tuesday a case study of blog and social software use in the UK NHS Modernisation Agency (about mental health)

• interested in practical steps needed to make soc.soft. work better than trad. enterprise software in building social capital and human-scale comms networks within organisations

• also speaking at London Symposium on July 12

• desperately trying to find the time to write up proper case study and review of this work

Roland Tanglao

• arriving 4th July afternoon, leaving Weds 7th early; staying at the Atlas

• interested in blogging and RSS for dollars

• never been to karaoke :-), would prefer Guiness watching Euro04 even though I know nothing about soccer

Dorota Smyk-Bhattacharjee

• will have to start packing for the night train to Vienna soon, arriving Mon. morning, leaving Tuesday evening

• will miss EURO04 finals ;( (unless the Austrain conductor has a TV on the train)

• staying at Atlas hotel

• interested in blogs as a new genre of Computer Mediated Communication and linguistic issues related to blogs

Matt Mower

• arrived 4th

• leave 7th

• staying at the Atlas

• online in #kmtalk on FreeNode

Desiree Gosby and Omar Green

• Left Boston July 3rd

• Arrived July 4th - dismal trip

• Leaving July 7th for the UK

• Staying at the Best Western Hotel Stefanie

• Interested in meeting fellow mobile bloggers and video bloggers

• Our work involves creating an intelligent blogging experience for mobile devices at SavaJe Technologies

• AIM usernames DesireeAtSavaJe and JoeBobAtSavaJe

• sms@toutlemonde.com

Ideas for Meet-ups and Social Activities

• Informal Get together organized by Knallgrau on 5th July, at Gasthaus zur Stadt Krems, Beer and Bowling, everybody is welcome, Would be very nice to see you there! (Details)

• how about supper together after the conference on the 6th? anyone interested? -- Steph

- sounds like a good idea -- Suw

- We meet at 20:00 in the lobby of Hotel Atlas (Ton, Phil, Therese, Martin, many others)

- Weather report looking kind of promising. But we have learned not to trust them this year. The Summer Stage would be a great venue. -- Horst

• Suw and I are thinking about karaoke, on Sunday -- anybody know nice (=not too "pro") places for karaoke in Vienna? -- Steph

- A list of karaoke places (last updated 2002!) is here, but unlike Tokyo, Vienna is not particularly famous for karaoke, so don't expect much. -- Horst

- will be competing with the football final, anybody motivated apart from Martin and Steph (and maybe Suw if we get her drunk enough and drag her away from the match)?

- You can either try Sing a Song in Palais Eschenbach or one of the Pubs located in the so called "Bermuda Dreieck" near Schwedenplatz. Most of the venues have karaoke only on Sunday night, but I don't whether that is true on the Sunday of the Finals -- Michael

Cheap Hotels

All of these are basic, simple hotels with single rooms for EUR 60 or less. Expect clean rooms, but no luxuries.

• Hotel Atlas a student residence operated as a hotel during the summer, recommended by Blog Talk organizers, ask for Blog Talk discount with your registration ID

• Hotel Kugel

• Hotel Walzerstadt

• Hotel Fuerstenhof

• Pension Wild

• Pension Anna

• Pension City nice small hotel, right next to the Stephansplatz

Tourist Information

• Official Vienna Tourist Information

• Official Vienna Tourist Information, targeted for younger people

• TimeOut.com Vienna

• A few touristy suggestions by BlogTalk speaker H. Prillinger

Public Transport Information

The conference venue is within walking distance of Schwedenplatz subway station (lines U1 and U4) and directly across the street from Julius-Raab-Platz tramway station (lines 1, 2 and N).

Notice that there are four ways of getting from the airport to the city: commuter rail line S7 (EUR 3), airport buses (EUR 6), the heavily advertised CAT express train (EUR 9) and taxis (minimum EUR 30).

• Unofficial Vienna public transport information

• Unofficial Vienna public transport maps

• Official Vienna public transport information (in German only)

Important notice for everyone staying at Hotel Atlas: Underground line U2 will not be in operation on Saturday July 3rd and Sunday July 4th due to engineering works, so the best way to get to Hotel Atlas on these two days is to take underground line U3 to Volkstheater, take the exit to "Ring", change to tramway 46 and get off at Auerspergstrasse.

Free WLAN hotspots in Vienna

Helge's Blog

• Hotspot "Museumsquartier" (good weather only, the perfect outdoor hotspot),

• CafŽ Hightea (very nice tea and koffee restaurant behind the Karlskirche, WLAN livingroom of vienna, closed on evenings) and

• Bar CafŽ Latte (the perfect place for long evenings).

• CafŽ Ronahi (great arab and kurd food, nice atmosphere, good service, international press)

• Stuwerstrasse 35 near Prater. The hotspot is called interdependent2 (I brought it from home and installed it at the apartment I and Elmine are staying.

Geek Infrastructure

• Wikified conference notes: BlogTalkViennaNotes

• Channel on the Internet Topicexchange: http://topicexchange.com/t/blogtalk_conference/

• IRC: #blogtalk on irc.freenode.net (the same network #joiito is on) Direct Link: irc://irc.freenode.net/blogtalk

• Mac users: fire up Rendez-Vous! (there is free ethernet in the Hotel Atlas rooms...)

• Interactive BlogMap of Vienna realized by Mikel Maron and Johannes Gruber is that geeky

- can't get the BlogMap to remember my entries, it seems to require Internet Explorer to work.

- It works with Safari, Firefox, and IE.