Our Venue
I’ve got some interesting memories of the National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED), our venue (please see our map and directions). It’s where I first saw the web, demo’ed via projector, by a visiting American professor whose name I can’t even remember. That was almost ten years ago, when I was just a freshman who’d read about this Internet thing from Time Magazine and Doctor Dobbs Journal. Jeff Veen describes his first encounter with the web, just like his first encounter with the Mac GUI, as a mixture of connectedness and isolation. For me it was like falling from a manhole and ending up in Myst island. This was when Yahoo was just a collection of links in a Stanford server, before Google and Blogger crawled out of the woodwork.
Though I doubt if anything these days can compare to the frisson of surfing the web for the first time, I hope newbie bloggers can walk out of the summit with something comparable: Isolation from staking out their personal spaces in the blogosphere. A sense of connectedness to a larger community of bloggers. As for old-timers, perhaps a recognition that all their voices, big or small, add up to something new and powerful.
See you all at NISMED!
[UPDATE: Download PDF map/instructions courtesy of Prem]
Well, we’ve always referred to it as ISMED, haven’t we? The lunch place where you could get a seat at noontime in UP-dom.
ISMED…gosh miss ko na to. Ang sarap ng sisig dito.