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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:02:19 +0000

[...] â€œGnomdex [sic] was refreshing because it was a flat conference. In fact, letâ€™s just call it a discussion. It was the right size, was open, frank and honest in its intention and never avoided confrontation for the sake of control. I got more out of it than the other two conferences combined. [O’Reilly’s Etech and Web 2.0 conferences]â€ ~ Ethan Kaplan [...]

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Cleaning-up Interfaces with AJAX - Get Elastic #6 - Get Elastic — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:09:41 +0000

[...] While playing with Elastic Path “thinking putty,” they discuss ways to optimize the user experience, pros and cons of various technologies, the EBA Grid and Combo Box products and recap a few Gnomedex conference highlights - plus have some laughs about ski culture (gapers), community building, fantasy sports and the fleece-filled recreational equipment district of Vancouver. [...]

By: Gnomedex Rolls on with Day 2.5

Gnomedex Rolls on with Day 2.5 — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:04:31 +0000

[...] Ethan “Almost Famous” Kaplan works for Warner Brothers and is dripping with intelligence and name-drops. He earned an MFA, brought REM online and has taught at UCSC, not bad for 26 years old. He spoke of democratizing the music listening experience and breaking down the barriers between artists and fans. He showed some ways he and the WB webmonkeys are building community and spoke of the struggles to get management buy-in for new ideas. [...]

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Cleaning-up Interfaces with AJAX - Get Elastic podcast #6 — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:20:51 +0000

By: Ethan Kaplan

Ethan Kaplan — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:09:28 +0000

Its the ouroboros, the snake eating itself…

I find it an apt way to describe the blogosphere, and totally shown visually on TechMeme every day. Its not a bad thing, just the nature of closed ecosystems, and its endemic to other areas like academia, science, etc.

By: pete

pete — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:06:06 +0000

Hey Ethan - Good to meet you @ Gnomedex. I think you were a big hit on Day 2 as evidenced by all the folks who mentioned your session @ EMP.

I just traded emails with the guy coordinating la barcamps and dinners and you may want to check it out: http://barcamp.org/BarCampLA-Geek3

pete

p.s.

What was the “snake eating it’s own tail” art reference again? I need to remember that one.

By: Colin Brumelle

Colin Brumelle — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:55:50 +0000

I enjoyed your summary of Gnomedex Ethan, despite the fact that I wasn’t able to get there this year. BTW, I think you mean ‘Baudrillard’, instead of “Bauldrillard”, but I couldn’t agree more with your point about theory. In this day and age when everyone is seemingly occupied with building the next great AJAX toolkit (or whatever), it’s important to take a step back and think about ‘why’ rather then ‘how’. Well said…

By: kk

kk — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:17:41 +0000

ethan. was great to see you and your points are mostly righton. say hi to michael stipe for me and let’s think about kickin’ off that live music event photography web service. mmm mm.

By: Ethan Kaplan

Ethan Kaplan — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:07:24 +0000

Edited it…

It was a term of endearment But I hear you about the flames.

If you scroll down to a few entries back I found some cool Patti Smith footage on YouTube.

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:04:16 +0000

Sorry, i didn’t find it funny, obviously. I get flamed so much Ethan, it’s just plain ugly to me.

And by the way you’re getting quoted on the bastards thing. That’s how I found out about it.