Cory Doctorow round-up
April 19, 2006There’s already been a bit of coverage on the Cory Doctorow lecture that I went to last night. I’m a bit behind the eight-ball, so rather than be repetitive I thought I’d provide some links …
I’ve also put together a mind-map covering the main points of the talk and my perceptions, which I thought I’d share with you. Unlike Cameron, I decided to go oldschool and mind-mapped with a notepad and pen–worked a treat! I’ve tried to be as accurate as possible in summarising … apologies to Cory for any salient points I might have missed. You can find a PDF of the mindmap here (416K).
I really enjoyed the talk. It was informative and interesting. A lot of the material was stuff that I am relatively knowledgeable about already, but nevertheless, I found some things framed from a different perspective. I particularly relate to Cory’s description of Free and Open Source software as “an expression of enlightenment … a philosophy.” It’s often difficult for me to express my own interest in Open Source software, and I think that this sums it up nicely. For me, it’s not necessarily the ‘output’ i.e. the software per se but rather, an interest in this field is more from the human endeavour perspective and in the belief that that there are different ways to find meaning and create value, than most of us have been taught via rationalist ideals.
Another thing that I also really enjoyed about the night was meeting up with other like-minded individuals and having a good old chin wag over a few beers. Thanks to Cam for being the ‘connector’ and hooking up with a number of us local bloggers.
April 19th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Great Map Daryl.
April 20th, 2006 at 10:16 am
[...] Daryl Cook (who has a great mind map of the talk - highly recommend you have a look at it) Netweb Cameron Reilly James Mc Parlane’s Blog [...]
April 20th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
[...] DelicateGeniusBlog has a great review of the things Cory covered (including an MP3 recording), and Daryl Cook created a very useful PDF mindmap. Technorati Tags: Boing Boing Cory Doctorow Flickr Hugo Popcorn Taxi RPG Sydney [...]
April 20th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
I caught the Sydney session last night … the buzz in the room was fantastic. I really enjoyed the talk, but felt that perhaps Cory was a little too idealistic for my taste. He still blew my mind on a few issues though.
Cheers,
Renai LeMay
News Journalist
ZDNet Australia
April 20th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Thanks for sharing the mindmap Daryl, very nicely constructed and a great read!
April 20th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Thanks for the map!
To be honest, I think a lot of the movie industry people in the ausience just didn’t get it - and certainly from the muttered comments I heard afterwards, a lot didn’t agree either.
Me on the other hand…
April 21st, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Renai. Idealistic? Yes, I agree. But I also tend to think that this crazy planet could do with a few more passionate idealists who dare to dream!
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:41 am
Hey Daryl,
Great mindmap.
One nitpick, It’s Doctorow not Doctrow.
-dg
April 26th, 2006 at 11:24 am
Thanks dg. It’s important to be accurate– particularly with people’s names!–although I must admit to being a bit lax with most of my posts. I’ve amended the post and the mindmap.
April 28th, 2006 at 10:36 am
“Idealistic? Yes, I agree. But I also tend to think that this crazy planet could do with a few more passionate idealists who dare to dream!”
I agree! Idealists make life more interesting.
I used to be an idealist … but I think journalism kind of beats it out of you eventually. You start to realise that there are multiple angles to any story, and to be objective you kind of need to consider them all, even the ones that go against your own opinion!
I guess I’m kind of an idealist now in that I try to live up to people’s best ideas about journalists not their worst … I stress the word “try”!!!
Renai
News Journalist
ZDNet Australia