BarCamp functioned as the networking hub of early Web 2.0 celebrity

Evidence

Scott Beale recalls the importance of BarCamp in bringing together key figures of Web 2.0, including Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington, two of the most influential Web 2.0 bloggers: “BarCamp is seminal. This is like the most important thing of all of this … Scoble came by, and he was really into it. It was actually the very first public demo of Flock and Pandora. It was a really big deal, those things coming out of it, and the funny thing that we always think about is Arrington was there. None of us knew him.” — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 162

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to influencer/creator culture: BarCamp was the physical space where micro-celebrity (Scoble, Arrington) was being constituted before anyone knew who they were. — connects to: Early Web 2.0 celebrity was built by leveraging blogs and lifestyle content — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 385; Early Web 2.0 social ties formed through blogs and meetups before mass social media — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 156

Broader Connections

• Early Web 2.0 social ties formed through blogs and meetups before mass social media #expands (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 156
• Early Web 2.0 celebrity was built by leveraging blogs and lifestyle content #expands (0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 385