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Update: Real-time indeed.  In-process, the call was joined by Doc Searls (Cluetrain Manifesto and ProjectVRM) and Kevin Marks (BT).  Wow that was fun.  Check out the recording. -@ccarfi

As part of our special track at Supernova 2009: Real Time Flow, co-hosted by BT, we are engaged in exploration of the shift from a web of static pages to real time streams of interactions. (Last year, our innovative Open Flow track considered the technologies and practices that allow information to move freely between users, websites, and organizations. In the months since then, many of the ideas that were radical then have gone mainstream.)

At Supernova 2009, we’ll address the next step: making use of open data flows in real time. As part of our continuing coverage of this phenomenon, Friday’s Network Age Briefing call will be with Tantek Çelik, who is the moderating the Real Time Flow track at the conference.  Join us!

He notes in this interview that “given the collapse in the value of information, attention is very very valuable, if only because it is so scarce.” Some of the work he’s doing will help people get the maximum value out of the attention they “spend” on content, while at the same time helping content providers get the maximum value out of the attention we give their content.

Huberman and his team are also creating software to help us understand those networks and how we’re interacting with them. People in networks declare a large number of “friends” or followers but Huberman actually studied how many people users on twitter actually interact with, versus how many they follow. The number is actually somewhat small. And they researched the process of reciprocity – we tweet those who tweet us. If you’re a good at reciprocating, you’ll be more valuable.

He also talks about people who have “attention income” – celebrities are people whose attention generates income. He notes that when people pay attention to your content, you’re more likely to create more, and when that attention wanes, you’ll create less. Seems logical, but it has a bunch of implications for people contributing to large public projects like Wikipedia or open source efforts.

Dr. Huberman also discusses possible alternate models for how attention can generate income. Thanks to him for a fascinating discussion, and I look forward to his session in just a few weeks at Supernova.

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As we noted earlier this week, we’re excited to announce a special track at Supernova 2009: Real Time Flow, co-hosted by BT. Join us for a cutting-edge exploration of the shift from a web of static pages to real time streams of interactions. Last year, our innovative Open Flow track considered the technologies and practices that allow information to move freely between users, websites, and organizations. In the months since then, many of the ideas that were radical then have gone mainstream. At Supernova 2009, we’ll address the next step: making use of open data flows in real time.

On this week’s Network Age Briefing call, we’ll chat with Marshall Kirkpatrick, Vice President of Content Development at ReadWriteWeb, and also the Lead Writer. He hails from Portland, Oregon, USA. Prior to joining R/WW in Sept 2007, Marshall was Director of Content at SplashCast Media. During 2006 he was Lead Blogger at TechCrunch.

Joining Marshall was Kevin Marks, VP of Web Services at BT. He was also Principal Engineer for Technorati after working for both Apple and the BBC. Kevin is also one of the founders of Microformats.

Last year, our innovative Open Flow track considered the technologies and practices that allow information to move freely between users, websites, and organizations. In the months since then, many of the ideas that were radical then have gone mainstream. At Supernova 2009, we’ll address the next step: making use of open data flows in real time.

The Real Time Flow track, chaired by leading web technologist Tantek Çelik, will feature high-level participants from Google Wave, Microsoft’s Bing, Twitter, BT, and other key players and innovators. Sessions will include:

• Going with the Flow: How do we go beyond static pages, posts, or tweets to systems that track the flows of activities as people experience them and share information with others?

• Sense Making: Real Time Search, Answers, and Discovery (Sponsored by Microsoft/Bing). How can we extract actionable knowledge out of the cacophony of interactions as they happen? Is real-time search just a faster version of searching the web, or something fundamentally new?

• Frontiers of Real Time Collaboration: Software tools for collaboration have been around for decades, but have always fallen short of their potential. Are solutions built around sharing social interactions and content in real time the answer?

Key to some of the interconnections is not just the data layers and open APIs but the relationships the companies, engineers and users have between each other. As the Network Age progresses, it seems important to note that it is not just what you know that will make your company successful, but who you know and how you can cooperate for the benefit of your user and customer communities.

If you want to see the entire panel, the folks at Fora.TV have the Future of Content Distribution set up in chapters on their site.

Hat tip to SocialMedian for alerting me to the post.

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Denise Howell is a seasoned appellate and intellectual property litigator based in Los Angeles. Weblogs she writes or has written include Bag and Baggage, Lawgarithms, Between Lawyers, and The Industry Standard. She writes the Dicta column in The American Lawyer magazine on a bi-monthly basis, hosts an audio series at TWiT.tv called this WEEK in LAW, and another one at IT Conversations called Sound Policy. Howell coined the term “blawg” and helped pioneer podcasting for lawyers. Microcontent obsessed since 2001, she is frequently quoted in the media on legal issues involving intellectual property and technology law.

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danah boyd is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She recently completed her PhD in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley.

Dr. boyd’s dissertation “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics” focused on how American youth use networked publics for sociable purposes. She examined the role that social network sites like MySpace and Facebook play in everyday teen interactions and social relations. She was interested in how mediated environments alter the structural conditions in which teens operate, forcing them to manage complex dynamics like interacting before invisible audiences, managing context collisions, and negotiating the convergence of public and private life. This work was funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of a broader grant on digital youth and informal learning. At the Berkman Center, danah co-directed the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to work with companies and non-profits to identify potential technical solutions for keeping children safe online. This Task Force was formed by the U.S. Attorneys General and MySpace and is being organized by the Berkman Center. Dr. boyd received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University and a master’s degree in sociable media from MIT Media Lab. She has worked as an ethnographer and social media researcher for various corporations, including Intel, Tribe.net, Google, and Yahoo! She also created and managed a large online community for V-Day, a non-profit organization working to end violence against women and girls worldwide. She has advised numerous other companies, sits on corporate, education, and non-profit advisory boards, and regularly speaks at industry conferences and events.

danah maintains a blog on social media called Apophenia.