{"id":892,"date":"2007-01-26T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2007-01-26T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T09:07:10","slug":"apologies_for_relative_silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/26\/apologies_for_relative_silence\/","title":{"rendered":"apologies for relative silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of the week was spent at the Educause conference in Atlanta where Jesse and I conducted the first public hands-on event with Sophie in which forty professors got to load it on their machines and put it through some not-terribly taxing paces. it was touch and go but Sophie performed well enough that people seem to be excited about getting a real beta version, hopefully next month.   Yesterday, ben and i were at a small all-day meeting at the Getty Research Institute to discuss how a scholarly conference might be conceived differently in the era of the network &#8212; not just the &#8220;proceeding&#8221; that get published afterwards but the run-up to the meeting and the face-to-face portion as well. We brought along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectivate.net\/initiatives\/\">Trebor Scholz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapatimystery.com\">Manan Ahmed<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naimark.net\/\">Michael Naimark<\/a>, each of whom wowed me all day long with their remarkably prescient thoughts on the matter.  Turns out that re-thinking conferences is remarkably similar to re-thinking books . . . the big questions all relate to re-defining long-standing rhythms and hierarchies which have been in place for a few hundred years &#8212; the role of the speaker and audience is being up-ended in ways similar to the roles of author and reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of the week was spent at the Educause conference in Atlanta where Jesse and I conducted the first public hands-on event with Sophie in which forty professors got to load it on their machines and put it through some not-terribly taxing paces. it was touch and go but Sophie performed well enough that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,738,1745],"tags":[2280],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-getty","category-sophie","tag-conference-sophie-getty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}