Bloggercon

Not everybody loves the guy, but he is smart and uncompromising when it comes to his beliefs. Blogging, RSS, Podcasting… he has either been in the center or the start of a lot of the social media spaces that have been developed since before the last bubble. For a while I have wondered what he [...]

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Dave Winer blogs about about Richard McManus’s comments about Bloggercon:
BloggerCon IV tended to favor the most vocal people. I agree, and this is not the way it’s supposed to be. I don’t think the DLs took the guidelines seriously in this area, and unless they do, the unconference format suffers. They’re supposed to seek [...]

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All in all this was a great unconference. The crowd was fun and engaged, the wifi was fast and the conversations were great. The overall take-away was that with Bloggercon, like blogging or participating in any event, you get out of it what you put into it. Unlike conferences where you veg out and then [...]

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vlogging – more of a time requirement
same growing pains as podcasting and blogging
what is bloggin doing to push the medium forward?
not just podcasting
what do you want to do?
really have the world open to you
what do you want to see happen
what does video add – whats exciting, whats the potential?
video adds experience
descriptions/pictures
do people need to have [...]

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History of bloggin and 2004 election
First Bloggercon took place in 2003 – Dean and Republicans in attendance
blogging might move politics back from wholesale (big marketing) to retail (door to door)
blogging is neutral as an exercise
how can a candidate become involved?
congressional vs senate races
2008 election – if things havent been show to work in midterm – [...]

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John Palfrey from Berkman (Harvard)
Why do some blog? How do they make money?
Advertising, consulting, sponsorships.
the IRC backchannel is awesome

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Lisa Williams
blogging as an interchange
tempering personal and professional life
what you say has impact – on career, friends, family, discussions, relationships, kids
blog for freedom – say what we want to do on our terms
freedom to say what you want
Mary Hodder – interesting that 15 yrs before people were spying on each other in E Europe [...]

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Apple doesn’t allow the people there to blog…
thats nuts

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MP3 and transcripts of the discussion:
Tools:
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/z/e/200606/6-23-06_bloggercon_iv_session2.mp3
http://www.scripting.com/docNography/bloggerconIv/Day001/tools.html
Citizen Journalism
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/z/e/200606/06-23-06_bloggercon_iv_session3.mp3
http://www.scripting.com/docNography/bloggerconIv/Day001/citizenJournalism.html
More to come…

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