ETech 2006: next gen web community is worth our attention

Here is a sampling of the many interesting sessions on next Gen Web community last week at O’Reilly ETech 2006, themed around building the Attention Economy:

1) Derek Powazek's The New Community
http://powazek.com/etech06/

2) Amy Jo Kim's Putting the Fun in Functional: applying game mechanics to functional software
http://shufflebrain.com/etech06.htm

3) Clay Shirky's compelling Slashdot analysis, brilliantly simple Annoyingness v. Freedom community matrix, and “Shut up! No, *You* Shut Up”: A Pattern Language for Moderation Strategies
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/etech_clay_shirky.html
http://social.itp.nyu.edu/shirky/wiki/