Geeks galore!

The logo which Jimmy wales would remember on hearing "India"

Unconference is an ‘un’happening event which works in an unorganized way. “The day was sculpted!” as I borrow the phrases from the kick off session by Kiruba Shankar. Indian blogging legends like Kiruba, Amit Agarwal, wikipedians like Bhadani were present and last but the great Jimmy Wales whom I could shake hands with and capture a photo of his in my mobile.

Web 2.0 or collective intelligence would have been more appropriate name for the occasion as all the presentation and workshops were on wiki, 3D gaming, envisioning computing et al.

Things that caught my attention:

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the SUM of all human knowledge – quote by Jimmy
How twitter works? - From a side talk with Jax

Veni, Vedi, Wiki - a creative caption for Wiki by TKF
Liveblogging - by participants

We, the audience, were also provided with a stress ball to hurl at boring lecturers!

for photos: Search using tags "Wikicamp" in flickr or YouTube.

Bloggers around the Globe babble

A very good news for Bloggers around the Globe!!

www[dot]blogger[dot]com has gone out of Beta phase and is into production. Its lightning fast after this upgrade and quite easy uploading posts. Has got few web 2.0 features added. Sivakani and Amjathkhan are quite lucky fellow bloggers, long time college buddies of mine, who recently started blogging needn't experience the long waiting time anymore while uploading posts.

Coming back to the point,

Not everyone is blessed with the gift of the gab, but few manage to talk senselessly. Not everyone can use words as swords, but few manage to blog :) Let alone this post. But there are really quite few extraordinary people who are making a difference with their blogs and this space wont suffice making a list of them. For those who wish to meet these extraordinary people gathering at a single place in Chennai may attend the wikicamp, an unconference, by registering themselves at http://wikicamp.in/wiki/index.php?title=Participants.

But why bloggers are required for Wikicamp:

Is it because bloggers access Wiki most of the time? Or
Is it because most of the bloggers are technical wizards who would help enhancing Wiki? Or
Is it because bloggers are the only creative people? Or
Is it because bloggers spread news faster? Or
Is it a blogger's meet like 'blogcamp' again?

Lot more questions, have to find out.I would be quite happy to see Jimmy wales, the founder of wiki at the meet.

The event is to be held at Tidel Park,Chennai on the 25th Feb.