Scrawled in Wax

For today and tomorrow, I am going to be here at the Mesh Conference in Toronto, which is billed as ‘Canada’s Web Conference’. The conference is largely focusing on ‘Web 2.0′ (define as you will) and, from what I’ve seen so far, the crowd is pretty diverse which is interesting. So far the day has opened with an interesting (if perhaps troubling) keynote from Warner tech guy Ethan Kaplan, who focused upon the changing nature of the music business and the position and role of the record label. Up next is Michael Geist’s keynote, who will talk about digital activism. Over the next couple of days, I’m going to some talks on, among other topics: location and online identity; the economics of abundance; and cultivating community. You can check out the full schedule here. I’ll be more ‘formally’ blogging about some of the issues raised at the conference over the next few days, so I hope you’ll check them out.