Foo/BarCamp + post-WIKI-ism

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I won't get cute postmodern on it, except sometimes to observe is as much fun as to participate. For the O'Reilly ultra exclusive 225 people invited to FooCamp, many A+ RSS inventors bitching etc that they werent invited (hey if u dont buy the product..) danah apophenia et crew ran a variation on "group session" (not a hugh heffner playboy mansion exclusive site-seeing tour podcast etc.. which led to a 2 week flu for podfather when on hols..) :

"In short, people are told to gather 12 objects and then we hand them a list and they have to find the objects listed amongst their twelve. Here was the list:
A problem (2 points)
A non-scalable solution to object #1 (3 points)
A scalable solution to object #1 (6 pts)
A new mobile Web 2.0 platform (demo, please) (3 points)
An experiment in nanotech bioengineering gone bad (3 points)
A self-replicating machine (demo,please) (7 points)
A passenger amenity from the first commercial space flight shuttle (2 pts)
A working tele-operated object (demo, please) (7 points)
A tool for collaboration (3 points)
A relic from the battle between monkeys and robots. (P.S. Who won?) (3 points)
Edible computing (demo, please) (6 [pts)
FOObarred TM Anti-Surveillance (4 pts)."