Comments on: “Blogging” Davos

By: rony

rony — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:07:46 +0000

nice posting (from one media hacker to another) – the WEF blogging this year is a bit funny with all of the rules, but I am amazed that they went this way and didn’t just shut it all down.

-r

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The New Market Machines » Blog Archive » Today on Davos Forumblog — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:46:51 +0000

[...] Ethan Zuckerman of the (corporate sponsored) Global Voices Online says Bruno’s post makes him glad he didn’t get invited again this year. Which of course implies that he did get invited last year, which is more than you can say. [...]

By: Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:09:40 +0000

On the issue of the WEF letting the “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” aside and creating the “Young Global Leaders” group, see this post by Martin Varsavsky:
http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/klaus-schwabs-glt.html#more

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:29:07 +0000

Gillian – I’m thrilled you’re going to be there and looking forward to reading what you’re writing for the Beeb – thought you did a great job blogging the Jolie trip.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:41:54 +0000

I’ve been invited by the BBC online to blog from Davos and the Forum wants to publish what I am sending to the BBC. I am not allowed to post directly in either case but the BBC indicates they arent intending to censor unless I libel someone…The rules on the Davos blog are another kettle of fish. We’ll see how it goes. I am not an experienced blogger, having done it only once before when I went to Sierra Leone with Angelina Jolie for our human rights work. You can find it at http://www.witness.org somewhere…

By: Pablo H.

Pablo H. — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:47:35 +0000

The Financial Times discusses ForumBlog and blogging from Davos:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1a1f30d0-88b1-11da-94a6-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=daa36138-ce4f-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html

Just in case.

By: Anita13

Anita13 — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:35:50 +0000

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By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:59:57 +0000

Niti, John – I appreciate the optimism about the Davos blog – I hope you guys are right and that we’ll see some actual unvetted opinions on it. I have my doubts, but it would be fun to be proved wrong. Blogging’s not really new to Davos – Dave Winer blogged it as much as four years ago, Joi Ito three years ago, and there was a whole posse of us with laptops two years ago. What would really excite me would be WEF giving everyone their own blog and aggregating those results, allowing people to post before, during and after the summit. But perhaps that will happen next year if this year goes well.

Cyrus, I got invited a couple of years back as part of a WEF program called “Global Leaders for Tomorrow”. Basically, it was a bunch of cool people under 40 who otherwise wouldn’t make it to Davos. They ended the program and replaced it with one called “Young Global Leaders” – it’s unclear to me what the actual difference between the programs are, but most of the folks I was friendly with as GLTs aren’t YGLs, and I’m still just getting to meet YGLs…

By: Cyrus Farivar

Cyrus Farivar — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:20:31 +0000

How does one get invited to Davos anyway?

By: Niti bhan

Niti bhan — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:04:22 +0000

I understand what you are saying, but keep in mind that you are an experienced blogger, with one foot in the blogosphere and it’s currents. Let’s look at this from a different angle for a moment,

this is Davos blogging. The WEF (almost a freudian WTF there, ooops :) but seriously, do these people blog? I doubt if they do, for the most part, or read them as regularly as you or others in the blogosphere. The very fact that they are making this step, to me, at least, is extremely important towards the eventual integration of blogs, their power to permit a conversation and to put forth an opinion to the wider world etc etc (broad generalization here of course, and far better articulated by others). Sure the rules and regulations seem a little daunting to those of us who are accustomed to free wheeling our way through our posts, but for the most part, as you rightly noted, most of these leaders have never made a statement in public that was not vetted by umpteenth layers of legal and other departments of their organizations and countries. I see this at least as a major step in the right direction, like they came to the party, even if they’re hanging out by the wall and not ready to hit the dance floor.

this year Davos is talking about Design and Creativity, that’s another big step forward (ok, that’s very subjective for that is my area of interest) but all of these, imho,point towards a ‘loosening up’ of the suits.

I agree with John Power’s point – This blog thing may be more interesting than you suspect.