My brain is full. I want to go home. I want to turn the computer off and stare off into space for a while.
Having gotten that out of my system, let me ask all of you who have been following these posts (yes, both of you) what you liked and what you wish you'd seen more of from my BlogWorld series.
My own summary is that the Expo was fantastic. I'm very glad I came and it exceeded all of my expectations. I had a couple of concrete goals related to my real job that BlogWorld satisfied perfectly.
The one drawback to the show has nothing to do with the show, but everything to do with blogging. While I was able to meet Hugh Hewitt, Captain Ed, Michael Medved and a couple of others here at the show, I'm sure that some of my favorite bloggers were here and I walked right by them. You have no idea what any person around you blogs about. You end up sitting down at the lunch tables and asking what everyone does. The results are fascinating, but I would have liked to have met my favorite bloggers. I guess I should have set this up ahead of time by email, but I didn't think of it until I was confronted with this problem here in Vegas.
All in all, this was a fantastic experience. I really hope to see you all here next year.
9 comments:
I enjoyed your reports.
1) for the information
2) it shows a future for blogging as a form of MSN.
I, as the "other" reader am deeply and profoundly hurt that you walked Right past me and didn't even have the decency to say hi.
Being the introverted person that I am, I........
Wait a minute. Did you say Vegas?
Oops, my bad, K T. I wasn't there.
It was somebody else that you snubbed.
I forgive you.......
Really good info, some of it WAY over my furry head, but I enjoyed it.
Take some visine, have a beer or two and crash.
Take care, buddy...
Wollf
Hey!! Who took care of the Hamster? Duuuude, your house is gnna be a wreck when you get home. Those little furballs hold a grudge.
Make it three -
The diversity of the discussions - the wrestling with the nature of the beast, as in, will it work for corporations like kitchenaid when all you are going to get is "sell" points - the good news/embed from Iraq angle, getting around the mainstream media blockade - the issues about civility, something we all deal with (well, we do up here) - I loved hearing about it. Makes me want to be there next year...
I don't know if it will really replace mainstream media. Everyone thought the internet would do that, but it really became another piece of an overall marketing puzzle. But change it? Yeah, Just how much.
So - what's Blogger Underground? Did I read that right?
Thank you all for your feedback. Believe it or not, I monitored the comments very closely since I was online constantly. For whatever reason, other than the very nice links Captain Ed and later Gateway Pundit sent me, these posts did not get noticed. I would have responded almost instantly to requests for a different angle on my reporting.
You know, this is kind of the future of reporting when you come to think about it. I become your eyes and ears and you have a kind of indirect remote control over me. Cool!
Wollf, I have wonderful neighbors who come and tend to our Maximum Leader and Jacob whenever I have to go on travel.
Rose, at the last session, one on widgets which was just too empty of new information to blog about, I sat next to an IT guy from a newspaper in Minnesota. We both agreed that the New Media cannot replace the original content of the old media. That is, my home town San Diego Union will always have a job, whether it does it or not, covering the local political, arts and sports scene.
Similarly, I don't think you can replace the Wall Street Journal. If you look at circulation figures, they have dropped the least of any of the big boys, only about 1% while the NYT and LAT have dropped about 8%. The WSJ's reporting on business is so good and so thorough that you cannot do without it if that's your interest.
It's the big boys who just reprint AP stories and try to direct the news who are screwed. CNN, NYT, LAT, all of those big organizations are in real trouble. Where the WSJ is written by people who are experts in their fields, or at least journeymen, CNN is produced by imbeciles.
By the way, on one of the milblogger panels, Anderson Cooper came up in the discussion. It was generally agreed that he was a nincompoop. I had to laugh.
Lastly, the Blogger Underground is a subversive super-secret secret society that I started at my work to spread the web 2.0 counterculture. Our slogan is, "Collaboration for the Masses!" One of our corporate artists is generating a logo for us based on something from either the '60s hippy movement or the '50s beat generation.
:-)
Thanks again to all of you for participating on this blog while I was there. I felt like what I was writing made a difference to someone when I heard from you. Please, let me know if I can share anything else from what I learned.
Came across this today:
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
Lots of good info and lots of links - one to keep, maybe even join.
Thanks, Rose!
KT Cat,
It was great to meet you at the show. It's Monday and my mind is STILL boggled (both from the new info AND Las Vegas...).
Thanks for the good reporting--now I don't have to put my own notes together :)
Suzanne
Sounds like it was a great experience--would have loved to have joined in!
As a person that wasn't one of your favorite bloggers YET, it was great to meet you at the lunch table. I found your reports quite compelling. So, you definitely had more than 2 -- especially after reading your comments.
As a final note, I encourage all mad bloggers to go the the event next year. It was tons of good info -- and the best thing was that as bloggers, we are a kinder, gentler form of humanity than you find at most large events of this type. So, lots of fun!
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