The day started with a few mocking bloggers and computer users about the lack of wireless internet access in a brand new educational building at the Univeristy campus. I am sorry Patrick and Guus were right. Luckily, well prepared, I brought some really long yellow cables and Patrick turned on the wifi on his laptop. So we cramped our style a bit and managed to work around it.
The other point that needed to be solved was the tag business. Tagging is free isn’t it? But when you want to cover a conference it is more easy to agree on a common tag so syndication of the news goes more efficiently. Where I had proposed ELAG08 already others insisted on ELAG2008, since it was used on Twitter already, whereas we could ammend the tags on blog posts and Flickr. So the tag the conference was changed to ELAG2008
Meanwhile Patrick started a hashtag page to follow the conversation on Twitter , Guus started a shared tab on Netvibes. Two interesting options to follow conference on as close as possible from a distance. Only at the end of the day I added hashtags as a follower on my Twitter, so I missed that opportunity to syndicate. Of course there was a livecast of the presentations yesterday as well. At another URL than they had promised us. The URL for the livecast for tomorrow will be http://wurtv.wur.nl/presentations/roadkit5.
The workshops were interesting I had the honour to share the moderation of the workshop with Patrick Danowski. He covered the more formal cataloging requirements whereas I tried to steer and challenge the social cataloging and tagging aspects a bit more. There are going to be another two tough sessions to get some sensible results and conclusions to report on Wednesday.
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