{"id":310,"date":"2007-08-16T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2007-08-16T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T18:58:52","slug":"barcampblock-holy-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2007\/barcampblock-holy-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"BarCampBlock: HOLY COW."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>So, there&#8217;s this little thing going on this weekend called <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/BarCampBlock\">BarCampBlock<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtext.net\/open\/index.cgi?liz_henry\">Liz Henry<\/a> from Socialtext is co-planning it, and sent me an invite a few weeks ago.  When I signed up, there were less than 25 people on the list.  I figured we were looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/woolfcamp2006.blogspot.com\/\">WoolfCamp<\/a>-style intimate gathering for discussions about new trends in technology and its social implications.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, there are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/event\/67666392\">583 people registered<\/a> for the event.  Holy Cow, people.  Check out all these <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/BarCampBlockParticipants\">fancy folks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what the heck is BarCampBlock?  It&#8217;s a BarCamp, of course.  On a Block.  Duh.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, no, seriously.  BarCamp is one of those renegade grassroots un-conference phenomena that pulls a whole bunch of brilliant independent socialtech-minded thinkers together into the same space for a day or two and lets them organize their own discussions.  It&#8217;s free to attend (although you can buy a donor ticket for $100 or $300 if you&#8217;re feeling philanthropic), and it&#8217;s guaranteed to inspire the heck out of you.  You can read more about the concept here at its wikipedia entry: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BarCamp\">BarCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the Block?  The block is the Center of the Tech Universe in Palo Alto, including such office as Social Text, IDEO, Searchspark, and maybe Facebook&#8230; BarCamp is spilling out into the streets.<\/p>\n<p>And I will be there.<\/p>\n<p>Come along!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1326\/1052730913_5a094ba78b.jpg\" height=\"64\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.So, there&#8217;s this little thing going on this weekend called BarCampBlock. Liz Henry from Socialtext is co-planning it, and sent me an invite a few weeks ago. When I signed up, there were less than 25 people on the list. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}