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Supernova Forum 2010 featured a set of talks in the fast-paced Pecha Kucha format by Jonathan McEuen (Frankel Group), Alissa Black (Code for America), Jonny Goldstein (Envizualize), Idit Harel Caperton (World Wide Workshop), and Scott Heiferman (Meetup):
Pecha Kucha at Supernova 2010
The video is in Mediasite format (requires Microsoft Silverlight plugin), because it integrates the talks with the presentation slides.
Wharton’s Kendall Whitehouse has posted a large collection of Supernova Forum 2010 photos to Flickr.
We’ll be uploading additional Supernova 2010 photos and video starting this week.
Some of the visual notes from the afternoon sessions have been posted to Flickr. Each of these will open a larger-size version at the site. The Flickr photoset is here.
The Human Side of Technology – led by @heathr and @debs.
The State of Now – led by Jeff Pulver
Terms for Dummies – led by Anil Dash and Gina Trapani.
We will be streaming Supernova general sessions today through UStream. You can find the stream, and selected clips from last year’s event, on the Supernova home page.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article earlier this week about the upcoming Supernova Forum 2010. It focused on how companies that are competitors in the marketplace and public policy debates are willing to share the stage and sponsor list at Supernova. This is something we’ve always been proud of. Supernova is a thought leadership forum. Being affiliated with a university reinforces the fact that even though we tackle major controversies, our goal is to generate insights rather than advocacy. Supernova is a place where those with different perspectives can come together to find common ground.
This is not just true for policy battles. Supernova has always drawn a mixture... Read More
At the Personal Democracy Forum I spoke with Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine blogger and associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at CUNY.
When we talked about the Supernova theme of Peristroika, Jarvis noted “The Internet changes the structures we see, and as Susan Crawford said at PDF, we tend to like to hack around things. But there still is a power structure that can have an impact on us.”
Jarvis is working on a book on “Publicness,” in a recent blog post about the “Myth of the Opinionless Man” he the challenges of closed and non-transparent government. In our discussion he suggested... Read More
Supernova has a long history of bridging the divide between the technology and policy communities. We’ve had numerous government participants and speakers, including leaders from the White House, FCC, Department of Energy, and State Department last year. And we’ve held sessions on topics ranging from online privacy to network neutrality, well before they became major public issues.
Holding this year’s Forum only 120 miles from Washington DC will make it easier for policy experts from the US government, leading companies, and public interest groups to participate. To take advantage of the opportunity, we’re making the first day of the event, July 29, Supernova Policy Day. We’ll start with a... Read More
There will be a session at the Supernova Forum on “Evolving Digital Infrastructure: Everything is a Platform.” As often happens, I wasn’t entirely sure what I had in mind when I defined the topic. I just had a sense there was a rich vein for conversation. Here are some of my current thoughts about the topic. I welcome your feedback and suggestions to help refine the session.
Fixing the topics for Supernova is a kind of magnet; it gets me to notice relevant developments. This particular topic brings together two important concepts that don’t quite overlap. One is infrastructure; the other is platforms. A number of friends such as... Read More
Elliot Noss of Tucows
In this video from David Weinberger’s Broadband Strategy Week, Elliot talks about the lessons that we in the US can learn from Canada on the Broadband initiative.
This is sourced from David’s blog.
