The Gnomedex conference continues today…
- The Future of Online Content started well including discussions about the lack of individual blogging voices from big publishers (like NYTimes). Jason Calacanis gave some good insight behind Weblogs Inc; he mentioned being prepared for lawsuits which led to an interesting discussion (including apparently a cease-and-desist order from palmOne, probably about the Treo 650 pictures on Engadget.com). This panel could use more focus – kind of wandered all over the place with a lot of strong personalities.
- Wil Wheaton gave a great talk after lunch. The talk was primarily reading from his books. At first I thought it would be disappointing, but he really brought the stories out, beyond what you would get by just reading. Afterwards he was selling and autographing copies of his books and I was able to get both of them. When Wil saw I was from Yahoo, he was very excited to thank me/Yahoo for putting out the Unix/Linux version of Messenger — cool.
- The Future of Online Advertising was an interesting discussion covering various forms of advertising, whether/how ads should be included in RSS, etc. Dave Taylor put together a summary of related links in: Make Money from your Web Site Gokul Rajaram from Google had a really good point that advertising models work well only when it has benefits for all three parties: users, publisher, and advertisers.