David Weinberger Talk

The Digital Genres Initiative, the College of the University of Chicago, and the Julia Friedman Gallery present

"Why Weblogs Matter"
A talk with David Weinberger
With reception and party to follow

Saturday 31 May 8pm
At the Julia Friedman Gallery
118 N. Peoria Chicago IL 60607
Free of Charge
See http://digitalgenres.org/weinberger.html for more information

What are weblogs and why do they matter? How do they change the boundaries between public and private? How do they stretch our notions of who we are and how we live with others? How are we writing ourselves into existence in the new public world of the Web? And what sorts of communities do we create when we ourselves become works of self-written fiction?

On 31 May David Weinberger - Heidegger scholar turned web-guru - will discuss these questions and more at a free, public lecture at the Julia Friedman gallery on the near west side.

This event - the culmination of the two day Digital Genres conference - will conclude with a reception and party in which the ranks of the conference goers will be swelled with artists, bloggers and other suspicious bohemian types. Come for the Heidegger - stay for the Heilman's!

About David Weinberger

David Weinberger received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. After teaching for six years and working as a comedy writer for Woody Allen for seven, he became, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, a "marketing guru." He’s the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, a 'unified theory of the web'. David is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and has written for publications such as The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Boston Globe, Wired, and Research in Phenomenology. He blogs at http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/.

Digital Genres Initiative

The Digital Genres Conference. May 30-31, 9am-9pm at the University of Chicago in Chicago. A free two-day conference exploring how digital forms of communication are changing our lives. "We will host papers and conversations in an environment where the internet and the academy cross-pollinate."

Speakers include AKMA, Trevor Bechtel, Evelyn Browne, Edward Castronova, Naomi Chana, Biella Coleman, Greg Costikyan, Phil Cubetta, Anne Galloway, Lacey Graves, Daniel Headrick, Steve Himmer, Laura Jackson, Micah Jackson, Jesper Juul, Robert Moore, David Rosenberg, Seth Sanders, Aditya Sood, Molly Wright Steenson, Holly Swyers, Laura Trippi and David Weinberger.

More info here; press release here.