Comments on: Confessions keynote from Web 2.0 expo

By: The toughest room I had this month « Scott Berkun

The toughest room I had this month « Scott Berkun — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:11:14 +0000

[...] spoke in many places and kinds of venues. At web 2.0 expo, I was on stage in front of thousands (video here).� At various cool corporations and universities, I spoke in lecture halls large and small. I had [...]

By: Sharel

Sharel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:47:33 +0000

Hi Scott,

It was great meeting you at w2e, thanks for the the great advices and personal attention :)

i loved two thinks a lot, which made me think:
1. we are all storytellers, tech changed but not basic channel of storytelling… so true, people forget that 40 years ago no social technology existed, but humans did not evolve from the past hundredths years, and we are much the same like we were then.
2. RT without reading, storytelling should be with integrity:)

Thank you,
Sharel

By: Sean Crawford

Sean Crawford — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:26:31 +0000

I plan to re-watch Your Youtube very soon and make notes. For now this is my authentic first response. I would have made notes if I was there live, which to me is a good compliment, which means you are not, as the commenter would claim, dumb.

It is exciting that someone else can spot things as inauthentic. I am also excited by your observation that someone would “reply all” and comment based on assumptions from not reading. To me this is a lack of integrity, a lack that people don’t like to note just as until “yesterday” they didn’t want to censor drunk drivers: because so many did it themselves.

I think I will have some fun thinking of ways to give brief corrective e-mail feedback if that happens to me. Essayist Paul Graham once had to follow up an essay with a Cliff’s notes version (since deleted) because so many people assumed what he wrote, without reading it.

I enjoyed how you knew of, and quoted from, Penn and Teller. (Penn) That one I will write down.