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This year’s Chaos Communication Congress was an overwhelming experience, mostly because of the great number of participants and the good atmosphere, although everybody had a hard time to find empty seats in the lecture halls. Fortunately, the lectures were streamed. So, I didn’t always fought my way through the crowd, but simply watched the stream instead. This is, of course, not quite the same thing. Here are some impressions of the lectures I attended or watched as a stream:
- I was late at the opening event and wasn’t particularly captured by the keynote, so I gave up on it after some minutes. I cannot tell exactly why the keynote didn’t touch me; possibly it was John Gilmore’s way of speaking. Moreover, the opening event should be more stimulating.
- As expected, Hacking the iPhone was the highlight of the first day. The lecture hall was very crowded; fortunately, I came early enough to get into the room and sit on the floor. Unfortunately, one of the speakers was almost incomprehensible, but the talk was certainly very interesting.
- My personal favorite of the first day was the live feature on Kurt Gödel. Such presentations are always very funny and informative at the same time. I hope there will be more!
- The talk on swarm robots on the second day was very thought-stimulating. In this project, the robots communicate through infra-red sensors, but it gave me an idea of how they could communicate even without a special communication device. Perhaps, I should start my own project on robot communication….
- Magnus Manske’s talk on DNA sequencing was interesting to me, because it’s a field I don’t know anything about.
- Rose White’s talk The Infinite Library was very entertaining, although it didn’t yield much new information. I liked it nonetheless for its entertainment value.
- I started the third day with my own contribution on Newspeak (recording) which provoked some interesting discussions. I even gave four interviews afterwards: a very short videocast on Netzpolitik (with closed eyes), 🙁 one for Bayerischer Rundfunk (aired on January 9th, 2009), one for a free radio in Southern Germany and another one for the German Free Radio Network. I’m very happy that so many people found my ideas interesting.
I followed some other lectures, but passed most of the time in the Speakers’ Room, which is a cosy, unfortunately a little too small room where speakers like myself were accepted and could prepare their talks (there is always need for last-minute preparations). I coordinated the Speakers’ Room volunteers, which was an easy task this year, because the group worked together very harmoniously and effectively. Moreover, the Speakers’ Room is always a good place to meet interesting people.
Not surprisingly, with so many people around, it is easy to catch some viruses (computer viruses and others). Unfortunately, I caught a bad cold and had to spend the first days of the new year in bed. 🙁
Gute Besserung!
Jans Antivirus-Tipp des Tages: 1-2cm rohen Ingwer kleinhacken oder auspressen, mit Zitronensaft mischen, und (auch wenn’s brennt) trinken.
Hoppla. Ich kriege einen Fehler 404 angezeigt, aber der Kommentar kommt dennoch an?!
Ich habe mir gerade den Mitschnitt Deines Talks auf dem 25C3 angeguckt – vielen Dank.
Am Ende erwähnt einer der Fragesteller ein Buch, das rhetorische Waffen gegen Phrasendrescherei/Neusprech anbieten würde. Leider habe ich das nicht genau verstanden. Kennst Du das Buch und kannst vielleicht einen Link anbieten?
Danke,
Simon
@Simon: Es geht um: Politiker – Deutsch / Deutsch – Politiker: Politiker verstehen leicht gemacht; das ist ganz witzig, mehr aber auch leider nicht.
@JanWo: Das mit der Fehlermeldung verunsichert mich etwas, es sollte alles funktionieren. Danke für den Tipp, habe mir zufällig Ingwer-Orangen-Limonade gekauft. 🙂
@JanWo: Problem gelöst! Danke für den Hinweis!
Musste gerade an deinen Neusprech-Vortrag denken, als ich auf tagesschau.de las:
“Bad Bank” heißt jetzt “Mobilisierungsfonds”