Bloggercon IV: Same old, same old?
I listened to a few mp3s of Bloggercon IV sessions today and I found it disappointing. The sessions didn't really seem to go anywhere. Unstructured unconferences might be fun in the room but don't work as webcasts or podcasts. I enjoyed being in the room at Stanford for Bloggercon III. In addition, I got the sense that the Bloggercon conversations haven't changed much since November 2004. New media has become a lot more mainstream (as was noted by someone in the first session) but the Bloggercon audience (er, sorry, participants) hasn't. Then there is the weirdness of the whole exercise being organised by Dave Winer who is giving up blogging to write in some other format - perhaps a book.
Plus, when it's an MP3, you miss the IRC conversations, which were a good part of the conference and conversation.
And, well, I did get a WuTang reference in there.
Posted by: Jeremy Pepper | 26 June 2006 at 02:34 PM
Yeah, despite the joys of podcasting and blogging etc the 'bandwidth' is just not the same unless you're in the room
Posted by: Trevor Cook | 26 June 2006 at 05:00 PM