Social-Spacial Con
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October 17, 2010
Once in a while, in order to attend a conference at Harvard or MIT, the editors of HILOBROW make the difficult trek from Boston to Cambridge across the Charles River. Today we’re here in Cambridge at The Social & The Spacial: Occupying Place and Space, an unconference [dis]organized by HiLobrow contributor Andrew Sempere at IBM’s Center for Social Software.
We can tell that the ideas and people we’re encountering here today will show up on HiLobrow — hopefully sooner rather than later. However, we’re not going to liveblog, or even tweet the event, partly because we ended up running a session this morning (and one of us is running another session right at this moment; so OK, this post counts as liveblogging), and partly because typing instead of speaking out loud is much less acceptable at an unconference than it is at an organized con.
People we’ve met so far: data visualization researcher Matt McKeon, online game analyst Darius Kazemi, and “chief participation officer” Flourish Klink, not to mention our friends Josh Foer, Sherri Wasserman, Debbie Chachra — plus other friends supposedly here but maybe not actually.