“User Revolts” panel at SXSW
I’ve proposed a panel for the 2008 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference called “Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting!” It will be a user’s guide to organizing revolts on social networks, such as the AACS key protest on Digg.com, or the Harry Potter fanfic revolt on LiveJournal. We’ll be talking about how to stage a successful and non-destructive revolt, and how social network organizers should respond to revolting users. I’ll be joined on the panel by distinguished social network gurus/bloggers Gina Trapani and Jessamyn West, as well as a couple of other cool people TBA.
SXSW won’t accept the panel unless you vote for it — all panels at this geeky conference are picked by the community. So if you want to send me, Gina and Jessamyn to SXSW and find out what we have to say about user revolts, please sign up and vote for our panel!
August 21st, 2007 at 1:00 pm
[...] Vote for “User Revolts†panel at SXSW Actually don’t. If you thought SXSW had way too much navel gazing and patting each other on the back, wait till you see this years panels voted on by the bloggers themselves. [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Eliot Phillips tells you not to vote for this panel, then turns around and links to Lifehacker, a blog he’s just accused of being “navel gazing.” There’s some kind of elaborate reach-around joke here but it’s eluding me.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I searched his site and can find no instance of him calling Lifehacker navel gazing.
August 25th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
All I meant was that he called all the bloggers on this panel “navel gazing,” and Gina Trapani (editor of Lifehacker) is one of those bloggers.