Topic
- Weblog Writer's Meeting on 2004/03/11
- Disclaimer
- These notes are a best effort.
- Blog your corrections and commentary.
- Email me for removal of crediting.
- Webcast Details
- This will be webcast
- And recorded for later on RealMedia (possibly MP3 as well)
- Chat back on #bloggercon!!
- RO will be speaking for IRCers
- Attendants
- SZ: Sooz
- JM: Jay McCarthy
- SN: Sun
- JB: Jessica Baumgart
- DW: Dave Winer
- MW: Mike Walsh
- RH: Rick Heller
- BS: Bob Stepno
- SR: Shimon Rura
- MF: Michael Feldman
- VN: Vernica
- GE: Garrett Eastman
- RM: Rebecca MacKinnon
- LW: Lisa Williams
- Past Attendants
- AW: Albert Willis
- BD: Betsy Devine
- RO: Ryan Overbey
- CJ: Critt Jarvis
- JA: Josh Ain
- M: Madhu
- SF: Seth Finkelstein
- Single
- JN - John Norville - Anthropology Department - Life online, Culture, Democracy
- MB: Mary Berkmanite - Doing researchy stuff
- S: Stephen
- PS: Pito Salas
- BA: Bob Atkinson
- DO: Dermot O'Rourke, from IAP
- FT: Fons Tuinstra
- AS: Aaron Swartz
- HB: Hank Barry
- Guy from MIT missed his name - From Japan and Switzerland
- Ash - Friend of Jim Moore's
- WK: Wendy Koslow
- MM: Matt May
- G: Gregor
- LM: Larry Mils
- JH: Jeffrey Henning
- JiM: Jim Moore
- TA: Tracy Adams
- CL: Christopher Lydon
- TG: Tom Griffin
- JH: Jack Hodgson
- SJ: Scott Johnson
- AG: Andrew Grumet
- SP: Steve Pomeroy
- Topics
- Mostly BloggerCon
- Things We Are Missing
- Need to have an opening session, probably short, where everyone comes
- Going over the session names and their ideas
- Adam Curry's Session - Personal TV Networks
- Final capstone discussion about what was missed
- Presidential Blogging Session will probably be a big one
- Was blogging a big deal just for the primaries?
- Rebecca MacKinnon's Session
- Not sure what it will be about
- DW: Most people seem to conclude that blogging doesn't matter for reporters, but what about international ones like RM?
- RM: Americans are not very interested in the rest of the world, how do blogs make the rest of the world more alive?
- [ Talking about Chinese blogs and censorship; South Korea and Iranian blogs ]
- Format of the conference
- The Moderator is a moderator, not a presenter
- Help spin the network of the people together
- Advocate Track
- Right now just Librarians
- [ On Jessica's blog is a list of things ]
- Before was Medicine and Law
- RH and Book/Literature blogs
- LW: What about Mobile Blogging or Photography?
- RM: Whole conference on this in Tokyo next year... Adam Greenfield
- MW: Education would be a good one. And television.
- Power Law Session will be good hopefully
- LW's Visions From Users Session
- LW: People think of their aggregator and their blog are becoming the same thing... but I took this out of the summary
- DW: That's the line that separates AG's session from this one
- Goal of Session: A refinement of the list? Disseminate the information?
- SR: Some of the ideas are very long-range... should we explore the long-range things to work towards them?
- DW: Maybe, play 20 questions with them
- LW: More important to get at motivations and symptoms, rather than feature requests
- LW: Always more "good" features that "important" features
- Food: Penang
- Where to have the first session?
- The big one?
- SZ: Outside?
- Parties?
- Food for Thought dinners the night before and the night of
- [ Discussion about various ways of doing food and money for food ]
- BS: Ad-hoc sessions after the "big sessions" afterwards
- DW: Problem is that you don't know which ones it will be
- Not Discussed but Mentioned
- Next Week Topics
- Decide on a software product
- Talk about salons
- Blogging Center
- MS IE team
- RSS & Browsers
- Hosting for Presidential candidates
- Come back to Hank Barry
- DW talk about inclusion in Channel Z
- Behind the scenes of Frontier
- Notes