Interesting session a bit of an advertisement for their company Zedtycho, 3 speakers and a panel of questions.
Initially highlighted the concept of “desire lines” and there influence on blogs, weblogs allow us to push our desire lines of what we want to do within our personal life.
An interesting discussion around “Metcalf and Reed’s law” versus “Sarnoff’s law” and impacts/explanation around the internet and social software.
Replication and variation is required for evolution, people don’t evolution population does.
Meme’s are selected because we like them not because they are necessarily good.
Blogs are good because they allow replication and variation of ideas, this is allowing society to evolve. Fast reproduction can influence people’s interpretation of how good something is.
Blogs are about sharing knowledge and expressing opinions, these two things open lots of legal holes. Legal discussion that are just scary around defamation, freedom of press, trade secrets, freedom of speech, privacy, employment contracts and vicarious liability. Most employment contracts has two key clauses, disclosure and reputation. You obligations to your employer may limit your blogging. Vicarious liability in Australia means that comments posted on my blog can have me been held responsible as I am the publisher!! Do I turn off comments, an interesting thought! I asked Mark Neely after the session about blogging policies and Australian organisation, he felt they should have one. He also brought up the interesting concept that most companies have a policy of who can talk to the media. If you are blogging are you talking to the media and as such in violation of this policy, an interesting thought.
SME Protection around blogs:-
* know the law
* understand the potential impact
* bury your ego
* don’t get paranoid
* say sorry if you need to
Michael Specht 
We had lots of information pushed, we had a two hour panel crammed into 40 minutes! I hope it came out better than I thought it did. Cheers!
Michael,
I’m trying to get a feel for what you got out of the event versus what you might have gotten out of the most out-of-the-world event.
Tell me, if resources were infinite, what would you do inspire that we all should do next steps wise? Or do we have to make connecting-the-dots on all these more intuitive first? (see “What Is Knowledge?” at my URL)
cheers../bala
Bala,
Thats a very interesting question. I guess in a nut shell there are several things I got from the conference, ranging form education, experience, validation and a sense of community. I know it does not fully answer your question.
From a next steps I feel that we are still missing a few bits, I will have a read of your post and let you know more.