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October 06, 2005

if you were tim o'reilly...

...(or his web 2.0 organizing committee--I don't know who they are, but I'd venture a guess that they're all white men), who would you have invited to speak at web 2.0?

Here's my list to start things off:

  • AJ Kim
  • Foe Romeo
  • Kathy Sierra
  • Molly Steenson
  • Dori Smith
  • Judith Meskill
  • Molly Holzschlag
  • Janice Fraser
  • Elizabeth Churchill
  • danah boyd
  • Lili Cheng
  • Linda Stone

Who would you include?

Posted by Liz Lawley at 05:28 PM in SpeakerWatch | Permalink

Comments

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Posted by: Tara 'Miss Rogue' Hunt at Oct 6, 2005 5:41:05 PM

You, Liz.

Posted by: Gina at Oct 7, 2005 12:51:31 PM

Off the top of my head:

Name - Blog
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Shelley Powers - Burningbird
Mary Hodder - Napsterization
Lisa Stone - Blogher and Surfette (or, indeed, any of the Blogher organizers)
Debi Jones - Mobile Jones
Tish G (don't know last name!) - Snarkaholic and other blogs
Nancy White - Full Circle Online Interaction Blog
Julie Leung - Seedlings and Sprouts
Melanie McBride - Chandrasutra

Some are "techie", some aren't - but all are damn interesting and would add a lot to any conference.

Posted by: Sour Duck at Oct 7, 2005 4:08:30 PM

Sorry, I meant: "Some are more techincally oriented in their blogs than others."

Also apologies to those I left out - the above were just ones off the top of my head, as I noted.

Posted by: Sour Duck at Oct 7, 2005 4:11:13 PM

Thanks for including me, Liz! Between your list and SD's, that's some excellent company to be found in.

Posted by: Dori at Oct 7, 2005 7:08:33 PM

Sour Duck, thanks for the vote of confidence. As luck would have it, I've been invited to speak at the new O'Reilly ETel conference in January. It's an excellent opportunity to talk about where Web 2.0 and mobility meet. Would love to see some others from these two lists at O'Reilly events.

Posted by: mobile jones at Oct 9, 2005 1:06:57 PM

Hey Liz, thanks so much for putting me in your list! But as a matter of fact, Tim O'Reilly *did* want me to speak at Web 2.0, but it was John Battelle who made the decision and said "no thanks." So maybe the question for this particular conference is really "If you were John Battelle..." (I'm not sure about it, but that's how it looked).
I'd definitely add YOU to the list and Julie Leung and Nancy White and danah boyd... and was Caterina added at the last minute? I'd love to hear her.

Posted by: Kathy Sierra at Oct 10, 2005 7:21:36 PM