http://confabb.com/conferences/17564/sessions/5543 Tue, 22 May 2007 07:17:31 GMT Attendee Reviews of Digital Handshakes on Virtual Receiving Lines http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#281 I think Danah had some very useful insight into how to use internet technology to actually improve the state of our democracy - how to better engage people, how to reach younger people. Simply great. Tue, 22 May 2007 07:17:31 GMT http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#281 Arjun Singh http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#278 Apparently I was the only person at PDF who had not heard of Danah Boyd (actually upon seeing her profile I remembered I've read her blog once). The idea of her presentation was that candidates should post on people's myspaces and facebook walls and whatnot. Great. But outside of the obvious credibility question (is it the candidate himself or staff?), is the bogus argument that, hey, candidates spend tons of time shaking hands and kissing babies, why not spend hours posting comments online? The simple answer is that those two things are not comparable. Countless studies have shown that people who meet a candidate face to face are MUCH more likely to vote for him after than before. So the question is not about spending time, it's about maximizing time PER VOTE GAINED. And in that regard, shaking hands and facebooking are just not comparable. Sun, 20 May 2007 09:53:03 GMT http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#278 Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#260 Connecting the loss of mallspace to big box stores to the higher priority of online space rings true for me. Sat, 19 May 2007 00:17:35 GMT http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#260 Mike Slattery http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#253 Yes, danah was good as always. The perfect ten minute speech, really: no slides but with such a clear focus. Fri, 18 May 2007 20:03:53 GMT http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#253 Jill Walker http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#252 Would love to hear more from Danah! Fri, 18 May 2007 19:56:24 GMT http://confabb.com/conferences/PDF2007/sessions/5543/details#252 Chris Tuttle