re:publica xi: germany's biggest conference on blogs & beyond

the number of the day is 30%.

that's the number of female participants of the fourth re:publica conference for blogs, social media and digital society, the biggest blog oriented conference in germany. this year a three-day spectacle of fashionable (mostly male) younger-ish people, with the typical black-rimmed glasses, jeans, shoulder bag, dress jacket and iPad/smartphone/netbook in der hands. but the female score it's higher according to host tanja haeusler than last year. way to go, girls! new york university's gabrielle coleman was one of the opening speakers (on geek politics and the hacktivist group anonymous) made a great start -- more female speakers with such cloud, please!

i was surprised to see quite a number of english presentations and for a moment i felt confusion. i'm in my german home country but there's english on the stage, the way it sounds in my u.s. american home, the vocabulary on everything digital/online/web so familiar. for a second i didn't know where i was. it could have been one of my classes on media transformation or a campus conference at the university of maryland. but not, it's berlin, i'm happily listening to my fellow germans around me, some dialects pop up. then i return to twittering and blogging in english. for a split second, the no place effect comes and goes. yet, it's great that my two language and lifeworlds merge.

if you want to join and follow the german-english mashup of my conference experience, visit my twitter (which i usually rarely use):

@StineEckert

or follow a live stream from the conference.

it's good for the next three days, april 13-15, 2011 including my presentation in German today at 4pm German time (10am EST)

url: http://re-publica.de/11/tag-1/