conferences
The Le Web 08 Food Situation
This is a true and accurate description of how the food has been at Le Web 08 [http://thenextweb.com/2008/12/09/six-people-trampled-in-foodfight-at-le-web/].
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This is a true and accurate description of how the food has been at Le Web 08 [http://thenextweb.com/2008/12/09/six-people-trampled-in-foodfight-at-le-web/].
leweb
leweb
One of the wonderful things about Le Web is a refusal to adhere to the normal conference dogma of staying strictly on topic. And so it is with this one, with a group of sessions from unusual speakers exploring the conference theme of Love. How often do you get a
dave weinberger
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2008/12/Lo%C3%AFc%20and%20Geraldine-1148.html] And so, Le Web 08 gets underway. Loïc and Geraldine kicked things off slightly late, as they struggled to drag people away from the (rather good) coffee and croissants. The mood of the conference is rather
bloggers
And we’re off. A brief walk from the hotel and a surprisingly brief wait fir my badge and I’m sat near the front of the main conference area, waiting for the show to begin. This is the first year the conference has made a definite effort to welcome
conferences
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/12/DSCF0412.jpg] And once more I’m on the ol’conference liveblogging trail. I’ll be covering this year’s [Le Web](http://www.lewebparis.com) both here and on the [Social Enterprise](http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/enterprise-social-software/
abuse
For an opening session focusing on eeeevil on the web, it proved to be rather quiet. I think everybody was knackered, thanks to the early start… Laurent Haug [http://www.liftlab.com/laurent/] of LIFT [http://www.liftconference.com/] kicked things off by asking if there is a thirst for
gaming
A moment of wonderful weirdness on stage at Le Web 3: a robot playing Guitar Hero live on stage: The Robot Musician [http://www.vimeo.com/443173/l:embed_443173] from Adam Tinworth [http://www.vimeo.com/adders/l:embed_443173] on Vimeo [http://vimeo.com/l:embed_443173].
advertising
Doc Searls [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/docsearls/] gave what turned into a rapid fire presentation about 11 ideas he had about the future of the web. Here they are, in their abbreviated glory: 1. Bullshit will lose leveredge – advertising does not scale to the sky 2. Advertising as we
ecto
Just as I did last year, I’ve come back from Le Web 3 [http://www.leweb3.com/] with a few unfinished posts sitting in ecto [http://blog.kung-foo.tv/archives/000734.php]. Unlike last year, I’m actually going to get them up on the blog this year. So
flickr
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/2109364670/ "photo sharing")Art & Laptops @ Le Web 3 ’07 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/2109364670/], originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.com/
creative commons
The presentation that most people have mentioned to me as changing the way they think about something was Joi Ito’s talk on gaming [http://joi.ito.com/archives/2007/12/12/le_web_3.html]. Me? I loved it, but then the talk was about World of Warcraft [http: