Comments on: BlogTalk

BlogTalk

yoga — Tue, 13 May 2003 05:02:02 -0800

The first blog conference? BlogTalk May 23-24, Vienna.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 13 May 2003 05:18:44 -0800

"Blogging is a format constant (archives, links, time stamps, chronological listing of thoughts and links), personalized, community-linked, social, interactive, democratic, new model innovation built on the unique attributes of the Internet." wow. we haven't heard that kind of marketing buzzword babble since the last dot com burned through its last 10 million...

By: cbrody

cbrody — Tue, 13 May 2003 05:21:26 -0800

...and Dave nowhere to be seen? Amazing.

By: monkeyman

monkeyman — Tue, 13 May 2003 05:42:04 -0800

Step 1: Set up Blogs, Step 3: profit.

By: syzygy

syzygy — Tue, 13 May 2003 05:46:48 -0800

Since I live in Vienna, I would have been happy to attend and report back here on the conference, but I'll be camping somewhere in the Amazon near Manaus on the relevant dates.

By: O9scar

O9scar — Tue, 13 May 2003 07:43:46 -0800

Not the first.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Tue, 13 May 2003 08:07:43 -0800

Self-indulgence at its finest.

By: jjg

jjg — Tue, 13 May 2003 08:13:21 -0800

Sorry, O9scar, I think the event has to last more than an hour and a half to count as a conference.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Tue, 13 May 2003 08:51:09 -0800

used to have internet independent publishing conferences. But that was before 'blog' was common useage.

By: pzarquon

pzarquon — Tue, 13 May 2003 10:09:03 -0800

Well, it was more party than convention, but there was BlogCon. And before that there was JournalCon (self-link, sort of), heading into its fourth year in October. But that started before 'blogs were big, and is probably applicable only if you think "weblog" equals "personal writing online" more than "links with commentary" (or "the new new media").

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Tue, 13 May 2003 10:55:13 -0800

It now occurs to me that perhaps I was mistaken in my belief that "blogging" would be subject to Warhol's Law, as it is in fact an abstract idea rather than a person. Ah well; I still hold out hope that the next Next Big Thing will be along soon so we can go back to doing the things we were doing anyway, unencumbered by the increasingly unwarranted hoopla.

By: oissubke

oissubke — Tue, 13 May 2003 12:25:11 -0800

If blogging is such a cutting-edge medium of communication, why do a bunch of people have to travel to a designated city and sit together in a large room in order to talk about it? Do they not see the irony? The trendiness of blogging is definitely on the downswing, now that it's in the mainstream; hopefully the rhetoric will follow.

By: the aloha

the aloha — Tue, 13 May 2003 12:48:27 -0800

WHAT? i thought all you web proper mefi's would be running some cliche line about how you are taking the next plane to vienna. the first part of xmutex's comment holds true for all of blogging.

By: MintSauce

MintSauce — Wed, 14 May 2003 06:07:06 -0800

Pchaa ... sooOo last year. How about The First International Moblogging Conference.