So Misguided

Blogging & Social Media: Where do we go from here?
Presenter: Matt Mullenweg

I’m going to listen.

UPDATE:

Expression
* Most important thing about WordPress is the Presentation, ability to change the design (someone changes presentation every second)
* Facebook, most important thing is the Inbox, ability to send spam-free messages; 2nd is the photos (50% of the page views are to photo pages)

Public
Interaction
Validation
Form Dictates Writing: the tools affect the content people post.

Tools to Check:
Tumblr

Exhortations

4 million WordPress pages per [minute? day? month?] vs 2.1 Wikipedia pages.

photomatt.net is now ma.tt

Achilles Hell of Web 2.0 is spam.

Facebook’s “request” application crap is spam. This is their first big mistake.

Respect people’s time. Single guiding principle for any software development (for anything really: advertising)

Suggestion from recent research says advertising is clicked on by lower income, less education, spend a lot of time online.Let’s verify that.

Advertising needs to evolve. (Hello AdHack)

Megabrands are going to die or be the success model for blogs? Why do you put your brand name in front of everything? Why does each brand have so many sub-brands?

Yahoo’s Flickr, Yahoo News, etc.

Danah Boyd has a great post on this.

YouTube’s related video is their prized thing.

Wikipedia has in-line links as their key thing.

Open Source:
0. the freedom to run the program for any purpose
1-3 great “freedoms” of open source (study, redistribute, improve).

Firefox, Wikipedia (open source, open sourced)

UPDATE 2:
Listen to the podcast of Matt Mullenweg’s Keynote Address.

Robert Ouimet of At Large Media recorded Matt Mullenweg’s keynote address. I thought it was a great speech. He clearly thought about the audience and delivered a top notch address. I think Matt is a very smart cookie, and he totally whipped Boris and I at Wii Tennis. Next time you’re in Van Matt--I want a rematch!

Hey Monique,
thanks for posting the notes.  The 4 million pages is PER MONTH.

I recorded the audio and the full un-edited presentation is here:

http://atlargemedia.com/content/podcast-matt-mullenweg-keynote-northern-voice-2008

Monique, any chance you’ll be posting notes from the panel session you led at Northern Voice, or do you know of anyone who has? Sadly, all the recaps of the sessions posted on the NV Wiki to date are the ones I attended. And I couldn’t be in three places at once!

Hi Ruth,
Robert Ouimet recorded my session and is a bit behind cleaning it up, but it will be posted soon.

Thanks for checking in.