At a bouncing post-Reboot street party in Copenhagen honouring the late Michael Jackson, Internet philosopher Stowe Boyd - who I also met at Jeff Pulver‘s 140conference (about Twitter) - convinced me that I must hold a conference around Twitter and real time conversation in Stockholm this fall. So, without much ado, I give you Real-time Really Disruptive Media in the middle of October in Stockholm. (Time and place to be determined).

Real time conversation technologies like Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook status updates allow us in 140 characters to quickly spread news, rumours, ideas and opinions faster than the speed of sound. They let people get friends all over the world across national, religious and race barriers. They upend the traditional news reporting model, they allow politicians real time dialogue with their voters and constituents, they give companies the possibility to connect directly with their customers, and let customers expect real time response and support. They raise important issues around identity and privacy, of the borderline between our different roles: professional, personal and private, and not least of trust and transparency.

To be as real time as possible, I want to break out of the previous format of the Disruptive Media Conferences in several ways. Firstly, the focus will be on real time conversations with fewer speakers and more conversations with interesting panels and the audience. Secondly, I would like to try to get more participants from the other Nordic and Baltic countries - that is why I write this in English.  Thirdly, I want YOUR input into which questions, issues and speakers you want to listen to and discuss.

So, please let me know what real time conversation issues you like to discuss or which speakers you want to listen to in the comments below, or on Twitter where you find me at twitter.com/annika or @annika if you already are following me. 

Jag sammanfattar första dagen av 140 Character Conference i New York för InternetWorld.

Men håll utkik här på bloggen kommande dagar. Jag kommer att bryta ner konferensen på ämnen betydligt mer noggrant.

Du kan också se live video och arkivvideo från gårdagen på www.140conf.com/watch.

This morning Swedish TV news show Aktuellt called and wanted a comment on the use of Twitter during the Iranian reform protests. When I explained I’m in New York, it was a no go. They needed someone in the studio.

As I hung up, CNN topped their morning news with the Teheran riots. The news anchor scanned the CNN twitter channels for viewer comments on the situation, as well as playing snippets from the viewer call-in comment line. A lot of CNN’s on the ground coverage is citizen produced media, filmed by ordinary people on the streets of Teheran.

When will we see Swedish news media letting viewers, readers and listeners into the regular newscasts? Today, viewer interaction is limited to debate shows where a few selected emails are read by a journalist and SMS messages are streamed on the screen, unconnected and uncommented by the journalists.

Swedish new media clearly have much to learn from CNN when it comes to viewer interaction.

Keep an eye out for my take-aways from the intense discussions about news media and Twitter from the 140 Character conference going on right now in New York. 

"What are the disruptive effects on your company and industry?"

That was the question for the May meetup of Stockholm Social Media Lunch Club. We had a picnic outdoors, enjoying one of the first days of summer warmth in the lovely Humlegården.

Have a look at the videos and you'll hear some insights on the disruptive effects on PR agencies, education, TV, video production and party politics.

Oh, and today we broke the 600 member mark in our Facebook group!

This afternoon, the famous TechCrunch, one of the worlds most popular blogs, hits Stockholm with a special TechCrunch Nordic event.

The event focuses on

• “Minipreneurship”
• The inter-change between Nordic startups and the Baltic startups
• The focus for Nordic VC’s
• Do Nordic and Baltic startups think global immediately?
• With the Nordics a leading mobile region, what innovations will come from it next?

The entire conference will be sent live on the web. I will be on the panel that will chat during the speaker breaks.

UPDATE: Here's the Bambuser channel with live video.

Varuhuskedjan Target, som är mycket duktiga på nätet, har jobbat stenhårt med Facebook och har nästan 250 000 fans där.

På Twitter regerar VDn för Zappos, ofta ansett som världsmästare på kundservice. Kanske är det därför Paul Hsieh har över en halvmiljon följare!

Nedan hittar du min presentation på Detaljhandelsdagen. Kanske hittar du lite inspiration!

Joakim Jardenberg, deltagare på konferensen, fångade vår producent Björn Falkevik i farten och frågade hur han producerade all video live. OBS! Teknikvarning!

Läs också Björns egen postning om videosändningen.