Rowan Simpson

The videos from the latest Webstock Mini have been posted.

If you’re looking for a bit of light entertainment check out the Web 2.0 debate (a.k.a debatr, a.k.a. LOLDebate), where we resolved once and for all the question of fizz vs. substance. Or, something like that.

Mike Brown’s conspiracy theory alone was worth the price of admission: “Rod Drury. 8 letters. 3 r’s. You do the maths!”

Phil’s slides were featured on the SlideShare home page a few weeks back and are worth checking out (if you’re interested in the substance).

Mike’s subsequent tribute to the “moral superiority, intellectual acuity and all-round web prowess” of the victorious negative team is also worth a read.

Peter Griffin’s column had a nice summary:

“I think the debate came out how it should have, despite the “fizzers” presenting a more compelling and humorous argument than those with substance.

Above all the inane chatter on Twitter, the annoying music blaring at you from MySpace pages and the flying penises in Second Life, there’s something powerful going on in these new web communities.

Whether they will all live on remains a moot point, but one thing is for sure, the new makeup of the internet is seriously changing our approach to information use and social interaction. Whatever price you put on that, such transformation in a few short years has been nothing but substantial.”

PS In other Webstock related news … the NZ team to compete in the FullCodePress Trans-Tasman Challenge was announced today. Thanks to everybody who put their name forward and congratulations to the chosen few. The nations expectations sit on your shoulders. Jeff from Xero has more details.