Credit for the unconference concept 

The Cnet story on this weekend's PodCampNYC mentions BarCamp, FooCamp and MashupCamp as unconference progenitors, but not BloggerCon? I wonder if the writer doesn't know, or doesn't want to give at least some of the credit where I thought it most of the credit was due, to Dave. That's a downside, isn't it, when you put ideas out there for free. Maybe I'm the one who's mixed up about the unconference bloodline, but I don't think so.

Later: The Wikipedia entry on unconference says this in the page's history section

The term unconference first appeared amongst techies in an announcement for the annual XML developers conference in 1998. More recently the term was used by Lenn Pryor when discussing BloggerCon and was popularized by Dave Winer, the organizer of BloggerCon, in an April 2004 writeup. Winer's unconference is a discussion leader with a topic moving a microphone amongst a large audience of 50 to 200 people.

If I were an editor there, I think I'd move that last sentence to the method section or to the participation process section of the page, just to tidy up. And I'd move the Penguin Day mention from the intro.

Lost in Wikipedialand 

I was feeling lazy yesterday and spent way too long, probably a couple of hours, wandering around Wikipedia entries about (among others) Eleanor of Aquitaine, Francis Bacon, Thomas More, uptopia, courtly love, Cicero, and the Palatine migration. Not something I'm in the mood to do more than once every several months. I did bookmark a few external links I tell myself I'll read later. Right. Like you ever get around to reading much of what you bookmark.