It's even worse than it appears..
Very happy to welcome my old friend, John Palfrey, back to the web. I added his feed to my blogroll on scripting.com. His first new piece is about his experience at the AI Action Summit in February, in Delhi. He was executive director at Berkman when I was there in the early 00s. It feels like the old band is getting back together. ;-)#
  • I like the way they organized it.#
  • They asked for "position papers," and chose a set of them to be presented.#
  • Inbetween, they had a set of "tables" where six people could join and have a conversation.#
  • It wasn't boring. And that's the first requirement for a conference. #

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