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Category: BloggerCon IV
June 24th, 2006
BloggerCon: Dave talks about exiting the blogosphere
During the concluding wrap up for BloggerCon IV, unconference host Dave Winer ironically talked about his plan to cease blogging, not for the first time. Before he launched into his exit strategy he talked about reasons for blogging. "The only reason to blog is because you have something to say. If you do it out of obligation, you’re not blogging any more. Do it for your own purposes, and if people can’t deal with it, too bad."
Regarding an exit from the blogosphere, Dave said, "I’m stopping because I want to do something new. It’s been over ten years, and I’ve never done anything like this for this long. Clearly, I’m going to keep blogging until the day I die, or out of free will. I stopped smoking, so I think I can stop blogging. It would be a very good thing to do, and it might be for you too. When I stop blogging I still would want to write, but not a blog. So I have to find some other way to write, either write a book or come up with a new way of writing on networks that isn’t blogging and trying that out, or have electronic wriiting be a part of the book. I honestly don’t know what it’s going to be, but whenever I empty out that’s when creativity comes."
So he could keep blogging until the day he dies, but he is going to stop blogging. Go figure…
Doc Searls’, the Docnographer, notes for this last session are here. Overall, two days of good discussion and group therapy. Check out all my BloggerCon IV posts here, and all posts on Technorati and Sphere. Podcast of the session here.
June 24th, 2006
BloggerCon: Video blogging
Ryanne Hodson led the afternoon BloggerCon IV discussion on video blogging (vlogging). She teed up the discussion as follows:
Videoblogging as a medium is exploding and the community is growing exponentially. How we can continue to leverage the power of video on blogs for social change, art making, communication and education? With Vloggercon 2006 behind us, what have we learned and how can we continue to take action? How have you been using video on your blog? How can we teach others?
The Doc Searls Docnography notes from the session are here, and the downloadable podcast of the session is here.
June 24th, 2006
BloggerCon: Core values and Mike Arrington rails against the trolls
Mike Arrington of TechCrunch led the penultimate BloggerCon IV session on the topic of core values for bloggers (and podcasters + vloggers). The Doc Searls Docnography notes from the session are here, and the downloadable podcast is here.
Mike started off the session with the statement that the blogosphere doesn’t have core set of values and bloggers don’t know how to act. The primary example trolls leaving hateful anonymous comments. Mike said that he has even received death threats. He added, "There is a trend toward people non-anonymously getting more viscious in their comments….More and more people think it’s ok to slap people in the face when they walk by."
Mike Arrington: The blogosphere is getting more verbally viscious
If you want to do something creative and open on the Internet, you are going to have to fight for it," Dave Winer said. And you have to have a thicker skin.
Kevin Marks brought up the role of transparency as a civilizing force. Robert Cox siad that trolls and anonymous commenters isn’t a new issue–users of the ancient Usenet and CompuServe services experienced the same kind of behavior.
Mary Hodder asked why the answer to aggression is more aggression. Mary outlines a situation in which she was harassed by a young colleague. She quotes Doc Searls, more or less, about the need for older generation in the community to teach the younger generation a better way to behave.
Doc Searls said we don’t have a "commons" or sense of a public space yet. We lack the sense of proximity, a sense of the appropriate interactions in the digital domain, where the remoteness distances people. It’s safe to throw insults from a distance, just as people curse at other people from their cars. And once you are a celebrity, like an A-list blogger, people feel free to fire away, Doc said.
Andy Brown asked what level of civility do we want or not want. Mike said sometimes shock value is useful for being understood, but there is a difference with bloggers. When you get 55 comments a day or 10,000 comments a day that you are an asshole, most bloggers get to the point where they want to stop doing it…you cant handle the trolls anymore.
Dave responded, "Mike you have a choice, you don’t have to listen to it." Mike said he can listen to it, but it makes your not care. He clearly is disturbed by the trolls.
Susan Mernit talked about the ugly downside of being a popular blogger, but that the attackers shouldn’t be viewed as part of your (the attacked blogger’s) community.
Is it OK to delete comments, Mike asked. Susan said every blogger has the right to choose that line.
Steve Gillmor said that he takes the nasty he gets comments personally. "We are all in the same point and will have to confront the issue. Are we going to allow this to break us and squelch our desire to remake the world?," Steve said.
The subject turned to conflicts of interest. Mike invests in some companies, has sponsors–what is the right way to handle those real, potential and perceived conflicts in writing his blog. Britt said just be transparent and honest. Mark Glaser agrees that if you are transparent and mention conflicts it should be ok, but people have the right to be suspicious.
Mike disagrees. Money incentives drive me less than friendship, Mike said. He gave an example of how his friend blogger Om Malik probably did a little extra in covering his startup company Edgeio because of their friendship, and asked how is that different. Mark Glaser responded that Mike should be transparent in giving readers everything they need to judge your integrity. Mike countered that at some point our whole blog is just disclosure.
Jay Rosen stood up and said that community and truth often come into conflict. Community is important, people with common values, but can develop various forms of PC (political correctness), and sooner or later a truth-teller comes into conflict with that community.
Om Malik (right) finally cleared the air. Mike’s friendship bought him a meeting on Saturday, not the posts on his blog, Om said. "You kind of make friendships with PR people, VCs, CEOs, entrepeneurs…that isn’t the disclosure…the disclosure in in your heart. At the end of the day, you are not a journalist working for the Wall Street Journal or Wired News…these are your opinions..[readers can] take it or leave it…at the end of the day the ball is in your court at all times…and that is what you have to come to terms with, including the trolls," Om said.
Mike came in a bit later in the conversation, "Even if we disclose our monetary conflicts there are still a million things that affect things. Every person who reads what we write needs to realize that we are human beings, and what we say needs to be taken in that context."
June 24th, 2006
BloggerCon: Politics and blogging
The post-lunch session at BloggerCon IV was led by Lance Knobel, focusing on poltics and blogging.
In the nature of an unconference like BloggerCon, the approach to the topic will be protean, not fixed. But I think the starting point for the politics discussion will be to examine whether and how blogging and other new participatory media can make a positive contribution to the 2008 national election in the US. There’s a real risk that these great tools will just make negative, attack politics more potent. I don’t think it has to be that way.
The other foundation of the discussion should be understanding what the next great shift might be. I recently had a discussion with a leading political consultant who said one very perceptive thing: “The Dean campaign did something truly innovative and new in 2004. But if anyone thinks the next step is to do that, only better, they’re missing the real opportunity.” What’s exciting is that I don’t think anyone has a clear idea yet of what that next revolution might entail. BloggerCon IV will be a wonderful platform for that discussion.
The Docnography session notes are here, and we have a downloadable podcast of the session.
Some notes from Lance’s opening remarks: Modern elections are about mass market techniques. Blogging might in part bring politics into a more retail era, with more engagment with the individual. Blogging or any technology is neutral to ideology…it depends on the use. How should politicians get involved in authentic and positive ways that engage people, he asked. Dean proved you can use the Internet to make money, but also proved doesn’t deliver vote, which is conventional wisdom among political operatives.
Mark Glaser of PBS says that according a report by the Bivings Group, a Washinton D.C. PR firm, only 5 percent of campaigns have podcasts, while 23 percent have blogs.
General concensus is that the right wing bloggers are more in lockstep, and more effective, than left wing bloggers. Doc Searls rails against the notion of A list bloggers, and said that he doesn’t do party politics. Blogs are good at unpacking issues and nuances, he added.
Jeremy Pepper talks about the Republicans doing a better job than Democrats in the blogging world. Cash rules he said, and money will flow through blogs and communities who will be trained to work in the blogosphere.
The approach from the John Edwards campaign is, unlike what you see in mainstream media, to have a conversation with people via blogs, podcasts and vlogs, said Ryan Montoya, who is on the Edwards team. Edwards isn’t totally ghost written and his wife also posts on the blog.
Mike Arrington from TechCrunch, echoing Dave Winer, said don’t rely on others to make the world a better place. Mike said he would vote for Edwards, who he called a likely VP candidate, and that the candidate should not be spending his time answering video blogs. He should be a lot busier than that, Mike said. "I’m more interested in having him think about what he’s going to say in his own voice in a personal way. The first who does that has the best chance of being successful."
Britt Bravo said that personal connection is missing. She listens to freshman Senator Barak Obama’s podcasts, making a connection. He’s in my head, and he breaks down the issues and chats them up a language I understand, she said.
Jay Rosen, Jory Des Jardins and Buzz Bruggerman
Blogging has the potential to disrupt the system of elites and masses, Jay Rosen said. The elites control politics, the media carries the message to the masses. "The whole set of images and metaphors is potentially disrupted by the Internet and blogging," he explained. "Those vested in the model of elites and masses will try to put blogging into that model."
He gave the example of Barak Obama learning the power of blogging is in his own voice, doing his own podcasts. "The mere adopting of blogging doesn’t necessarily get anyone out of the elite and masses system," Rosen said. "The threat of blogging represents is to the people who have controlled politics, those who think their knowledge is the only real knowledge….the pollsters and those who read the polls…that is slowly what’s coming undone."
June 24th, 2006
BloggerCon: Building bridges
Elisa Camahort, representing Blogher, led the BloggerCon IV discussion on gender issues. Here is Elisa’s description for the session.
Numbers don’t lie. Whether talking about Fortune 500 CEO chairs, media commentators or conference speaking rosters, women have been raising a stink for years about lack of representation. People are getting more savvy about *marketing* about diversity…making sure their emails and web sites and brochures feature every woman and minority they’ve got, but when you click through you’re left thinking "is that all there is?" So, there’s a dichotomy between the lip-service some men give about their interest in collaborating with women — and the reality of how many men in power don’t give women the platform or the megaphone. No wonder so many women are doing it for themselves — the question is this: do we stick with popular, powerful his-and-hers conferences, or is there any possibility that we could come together and have a conference for humans? How? When? What would it look and act like? And what would it take?
The Doc Searls Docnography session notes are here, and we have a downloadable podcast of the session.
Elisa Camahort leading the "Building Bridges" session
June 24th, 2006
BloggerCon: Bloggers and money
John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at the Harvard Law School led a discussion about how to making money through blogging. Here is his lead in to the topic:
If you are a blogger, how do you go about making some money from your work? One obvious answer is the classic approach of throwing BlogAds or Google ads or whathaveyou ads on your blog. That works for some people, but it generates more than beer money only for a select few at the left-hand side of that famous power law distribution. Some, like Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, have added premium sponsorships to the mix; then again, Mike’s plainly in the select few. Others contend that a blog is itself an advertisement. You don’t make money on the blog itself, but rather you make money on other things (as in the artist who gives away his or her content on a p2p service and makes money on other things to pay the rent). I trust that we’ll kick around these ideas, but also get into some new possibilities: shouldn’t really simple syndication allow for some new thinking around getting people to pay for the content you create? And are there ways for bloggers themselves to get on the bandwagon of making some of the money that the venture guys are planning to make? How could that work, exactly? Put another away: lots of people have spent lots of digital ink (sound and images too) on the general problem of “how do you monetize the long tail?”
The extraordinary Docnography notes document the session, and we have a downloadable podcast of the session available.
John Palfrey leads the bloggers and money session
Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome said making money on blogging is about branding, and leveraging your personal brand. Many bloggers make money through sponsorships on blogs and podcasts, as well as from consulting and events, based on the visibility they have from their blogs. Affiliate programs suck–forget about Amazon.com links. Cost per click like AdSense, but there is a certain art to it…and most bloggers to grok it. Rex Hammock agrees with Chris that branding is critical, creating trust and authority in the niche you target.
Lance Knobel and Chris Pirillo, the brand
Toni Schneider of Word Press (Automattic) said he sees a whole range of opportunities for making money, but blogging should be about writing, not about making money primarily. When you start to let that happen it starts to look like link and spam blogs, he said. When a blog has a big audience and lots of traffic you can have interesting ways to make money, he added. Bloggers can be more financially successful by selectively choosing ads to target the audience, not just relying on AdSense type targeting. He doesn’t recommend putting ads in RSS feeds.
Toni Schneider of Automattic said blogging should be about writing, not money…which makes sense if you believe that great blogging/writing will lead to a way to pay for the habit
Terry Heaton said that there is no formula, and blogger should be open and experiment with business models. Elisa Camahort disagreed with the ‘just experiment’ strategy, and said you have to have a plan and a strategy. "There is nothing intrinsically evil about that," she said.
Rex Hammock, Terry Heaton and Lance Knobel
Susan Mernit said the emerging blogging economy would be powered by bloggers making niche recommendations, taking the traditional magazine model of editor’s recommending products in a completely transparent way, and making money when people act on a blogger’s recommendation.
Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams talk about blogging and making money
Toni Schneider said that the blogging community is good at helping each other how to blog, but when it comes to making money their is a big silence. People are looking for the magic bullet to make money in blogging. Blogging is so diverse, there are many ways to make money. Many people don’t want to share ideas about how they make money, Tony said.
Jake Ludington, Ultimately the focus should be on building relationships and trust.
Jake Ludington, podcast master
I asked why people aren’t willing to pay for consuming blog content. If a blog has 50,000 readers and gets $10 a year from those readers, do the the math. Lance Knobel noted that people have been funded through tip jars to support special projects.
Lisa Williams: If you have a local blog will never make money on Google ads or other network. the market encourages blogs that are keyword friendly like engadget to be profitable.
Jake Ludington suggested BlogAds as a solution.
Jay Rosen said that there is a band of advertisers, local business who aren’t big enough to advertise in the local newspapers, but would advertise if it were easy in local blogs. Nobody has made it easy to target those businesses, he said. In discussing a local blog in Ohio developed by Weblogs Inc. (AOL), Jay said that it doesn’t have same truth value as ones’ that just arise.
Several minutes were spent on examples of where hyper-local blogging is working.
How are you making money is about like asking how media power is shifting, said Eric Herz.
Terry Heaton told about a barbecue restaurant owned by a blogger and how the local bloggers are supporting the restaurant.
June 24th, 2006
BloggerCon: Developers and users
In opening remarks to a sparse early morning crowd at BloggerCon IV, Dave Winer discussed software development and users. "Developing software is very hard work, not everyone can do it," Dave said.
The session notes Docnography is here, and you can also download the podcast of the session. A few semi-random tidbits from the discussion.
Nick Brabury of FeedDemon: Developers just want to make usable tools, and feedback from users that helps them developer the tools that users need.
Dave: It’s reasonable for users to demand respect of us. Working hard is one of the most respectful things a developers can do for users.
Sylvia Paul: I see developers as inventors, and they need recognition for what they do.
See also Phil Jones’ post on users versus developers.
June 24th, 2006
BloggerCon: Post game show, day 1
The wrap up discussion–dubbed the Post Game Show–of the first day of BloggerCon IV was led by the Docnographer and Cluetrainer himself Doc Searls. Docnographic notes, by substitute scribe Dave Winer, of the session are here, and we have a downloadable podcast of the session.
Doc Searls: "Blogging is a lever on the world more powerful than anything we’ve ever had before." (Photo: Scott Beale)
June 23rd, 2006
BloggerCon: The emotional life of bloggers
The last session of the first day of BloggerCon IV was led by Lisa Williams (pictured below) on the topic of the emotional life of weblogs. Most bloggers are desert islands, isolated rather than connected to others. Commentless blogs. Several participants told stories about how they got off the desert island and how their blogs have impacted their own lives and others. There is a downside to having a public presense as a blogger. "Companies are afraid to hire people observable on Google," Williams said.
Doc Searls’ Docnographic notes of the session are here, and we have a downloadable podcast of the session.
Jay Rosen called blogging "limitless self creation." He expanded the thought, "I am a big fan and student of Hannah Arendt. Learning the lessons of Arendt. She swaid it was very dangerous for jews in germany to lose the capacity to think poltically. Jews in germany thought they were German. The Germans thought they were Jewish. If you can’t read the current events, and see through the news, you can lose your life. I think this is true for everybody. If you can’t read the news and figure out what’s going on, you can lose everything, even your life. We all have to learn how to think politically. We all have to learn to discern what’s going on. It’s extremely emotional because it has to do with self-preservation, self-creation and freedom."
June 23rd, 2006
BloggerCon: Standards matters
Niall Kennedy led a BloggerCon discussion on standards for users, which he described as follows on his site:
In the online world we rely on a few standards to make life easy for users. The W3C activity around HTML provides a common base for implementors and authors. We still have to tweak our pages for optimal use in each browser, but a common baseline reduces some of the work involved in deploying all over the world.
The world of feed aggregators interoperates using the OPML file format for subscription portability. Users can post to their blog and backup their entries using the application of their choice thanks to standards such as the MetaWeblog API and the Atom Publishing Protocol.
Open standards create open competition, eliminating lock-in and allowing users to pick the best services for their wants and needs. The door remains open, but companies focused on their users believe you are happy enough within their walls you’ll never want to head for the doors.
What are your experiences with standards or the lack thereof? What new standards and interoperability would you like to see companies develop to thrill their users? Bloggercon is part of the user-centered summer of love. Let’s chat about the things you love and hate about your experiences online and how collaboration and standards can help.
Doc Searls’ Docnographic notes of the session are here, and we have a downloadable podcast of the session.
After opening remarks about railroad gauge and RJ11, Dave Winer detoured to the discussion to explain how RSS works, as an example that regular users could grok it and enjoy learning the techie details. But after five minutes of discussion of whether Dave would walk through an RSS page, it was decided that Niall would take on the task of explaining the basics of RSS.
Following the tutorial, which Ponzi pointed out wasn’t totally user friendly, the discussion revolved around what standards are needed, which led to some more complaints about software. Doc Searls brought up a bright spot in standard evolutions, how users are influencing the evolution of user-centric identity standards. Marc Canter said standards, such as RSS, help create ecosystems for people to make more money.
Other standards desires expressed were for a standard person-to-person protocol (SIP, XMMP, Asterix are examples of current standards or emerging communications standards, Niall said).
Marc Canter (pictured above with Paolo Valdemarin): "APIs should be about portability of data in both directions. If you’re gonna suck, you gotta spit (Paul Butterfield). It’s about sex, life, love. What goes in, goes out…"
Tom Maddox said standards are needed for getting data in and out, preferably automatically. Everything today that’s digitized is at the mercy of chance, he said. Several people complained about the hassle of moving from one blog platform to another. Toni Schnieder said that it seems amazing that even with open APIs people can’t figure it out. Steve Gillmor said users need to be respected in regards to their digital and data rights. No more walled gardens.
June 23rd, 2006
BloggerCon: The user complaint session
Chris Pirillo led the first afternoon discussion at BloggerCon on the "power of users." Doc Searls notes on the discussion are here, and you can listen to the podcast from this page or download it. Chris’ premise is as follows:
As a blogger, you have tremendous opportunities to tell developers what you need, what you expect, and what you want. You are the user - power or casual. If you don’t stand up for yourself, nobody’s going to do it for you. And contrary to popular belief, developers aren’t gods - and neither are users. If this is a real ecosystem, we need balance where none currently exists. Problem is, as users, we have to deal with the developers - who don’t always see the world from a user’s perspective. I’m not suggesting a revolution - I’m merely asking for other passionate users to start speaking up for the things they care about. I want to know if I’m the only user out there who isn’t afraid to say something (right or wrong) about the applications I work with (good or bad).
Chris Pirillo, Dave Winer and Doc Searls talking about users in charge at BloggerCon IV
The discussion consisted mostly of the participants offering up their worst user experiences, It was like a psychotherapy session with the group purging their anger by talking about what makes bad software. Some of the complaints:
Terry Heaton–I really don’t like being treated like an idiot with FAQs. There ought to be FAQs for idiots and ones for people that might be looking for something. My biggest complaint is an inability to contact them. They bury the contact information so deeply that it can’t be found.
Mark Glaser–Wish there were a place to where users could get together and use all power to cause harm to a company, such as Dell if you have a probelm with one of their products, to get them to pay attention when you have a problem. (Note: someone in the audience said that if you type in "Dell support," the fourth link down is "What The F*** is with Dell Technical Support?! by Jeremy Zawodny. Verified.) Mark goes on, "Yahoo mail. sucks off and on. No customer support whatsoever, much like Dell. How can I get anybody’s attention?"
Lisa Stone–Many user conversations feel like an us verus them. People who enjoy the product and those who can’t figure it out. How can we have a conversation about a product without us versus them?
Jay Rosen said that he is a technophobe, but blogging has helped him. He tells how Firefox tabs astounded him when he discovered them, and how he totally lost confidence in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. "You totally violated my trust because you could have done it but you didn’t," Rosen said about Microsoft.
Is there any way this organization can put these is writing, detail what the perfect app is and post it on the Web, said someone in the audience. The more users can get their feedback to developers, the better.
June 23rd, 2006
BloggerCon: Citizen media--users know more
The second discussion session at BloggerCon was led by Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU. Rosen listed several questions and topics to kick off the discussion. The Docnographer Doc Searls provides live notes from the discussion. Here is a link to the podcast version.
- Cases-on-record that could be called open source journalism and the lessons from them.
- Stories that can be usefully investigated using open source and collaborative methods. Have a reporting project that would be a good test case? Raise your hand.
- Which user communties are good bets to be interested and knowledgable enough to make it happen?
- Is it possible to create user networks for the purpose of doing journalism with them, or wiser to rely on existing ones?
- What tools already exist for this kind of work, and how can we adapt them?
- What do we know about the challenges of doing open source journalism from previous chapters like open source software?
- Which questions already have answers in earlier attempts to do this kind of journalism (Wikinews, Oh My News)?
- What’s the right combination of pro and amateur?
NYU journalism professor and blogger Jay Rosen asks how users can contribute to journalism
Some notes from the conversation–not in chronological order. Rosen said the news industry won’t pay attention to citizen media until the non-mainstream media breaks stories. He pronounced that "users know more than we do is not blogging." Dispersed groups have a lot of knowledge that people working by themselves or in small teams don’t know, he added. "What we can know through open source methods not known any other way–that’s the Holy Grail."
Ken Sands, the online publisher for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane (100,000 subscribers)
described how his site has 35 active blogs, does 3 to 4 podcasts a week, and daily news meetings are open to the public and Webcast. Rosen noted that mainstream media has started to harness people who can provide pictures and eye witness accounts. Doc Searls said newspapers need to open their archives.
Mark Glaser of PBS said the key is to be open to readers. "Throw something out there, and readers who actually know something, or may be major players in the subject, surface and contribute," he said.
Lisa Stone of Blog Her said mainstream media lacks a diversity of opinion, and background. "We need a diverse set of sources to bring expertise to a topic. Not just wonks. Blog Her is teaching about that," she said.
"Invite communities with particular expertise into different kinds of stories," citizen media explorer Dan Gillmor suggested. He gave an example of pursuing the stock options scandal with the people who have a stake in it–the shareholders, who have something to win or lose in the process.
Tim Porter said investigative accountants, who uncovered the stock option scandal (back-dating options) can sell expertise to a hedge fund for a much higher price that to a newspaper.
Robert Cox of the Media Bloggers Association said bloggers should become involved in developing journalism training for bloggers. He also talked about using technology, such software the helps corporations comply with Sarbanne-Oxley regulations, to make every step of financial control visible in a centralized database, where bloggers and citizens can tap into the data.
Christopher Carfi discussed stories as a river that by definition changes over time, and includes more perspectives and facts. Buzz Bruggerman said that people need to see the river, and need to know how to "jump over the ice flows" and tools that allow users to contribute to the stream at any time. Rosen added that people need to see what’s happen and their parts.
Sylvia Paul got the last word–don’t teach civics, teach reporting. make them reporters.
Thanks to the Docnographer…
June 23rd, 2006
BloggerCon: Tools for new media mavens
Phil Torrone, senior editor at Make, led the first discussion at BloggerCon IV this morning, focused mostly on tools for blogging and podcasting. Here is the Docnography (Doc Searls is live note taking as the discussion flows) of the Tools discussion. Quote of the session: "No one knows what a right-click is." If you missed the live webcast, here is the podcast of the session.
June 23rd, 2006
BloggerCon IV lifts off
BloggerCon IV is underway, with a live webcast. I’m at the ‘unconference,’ which is being held at our CNET office in San Francisco. About a hundred blogger types have shown up so far for two days of discussion. Dave Winer, one of the original bloggers, is the force behind the event. Dave says there are no "users" at BloggerCon, just "participants."
Here’s how Dave characterized the event on the BloggerCon site:
Think of BloggerCon perhaps as the "original" or old school blogging culture. Yeah, we’ve been kicked to the curb and dragged around. Starved and hooked up to scams and schemes. But we still stand for something. Later this month, for the first time in SF, we hope to find out what that is.
We don’t have speakers, panels or an audience. We do have discussions and sessions, and each session has a discussion leader.
Here is the schedule for BloggerCon. If you missed the live Webcast, I’ll be posting the MP3 files from each session, as will others, including Dave. Here is the podcast of Dave Winer’s opening remarks.
Dave Winer opening BloggerCon IV with Doc Searls, the event techographer. Follow along with Docs notes as the conference unfolds here.
Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CNET News.com, has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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