Link to the wiki for the Blogging as a Business session earlier today at BloggerCon,
I was the backup session monitor for this one, but since Jessica showed up, I moved over to John Perry Barlow’s presentation on “The Emotional Life of Weblogs”
The closing session with Dave Winer leading the discussion.
Do we need a bloggercon community that lives on? Do we need a trade association?
I think the question today for me is did we really accomplish anything today?
PubSub offered to sponsor a BloggerCon in NYC…
Joey: “you’re making the mistaken assumption that I have shame….”
JPB: “I thought again that it brought alot of heart to cyberspace… blogging makes it safer and safer to be a human being…”
Dave Winer: “I learned that I piss people off sometimes…”
Some interesting side conversations going on while this is wrapping up – more about that later on…
Mobblogging – is this really important? Lots of discussions here about that – had some live demonstrations on mobblogging from Amy Langfield and others.
That’s it for now, probably some wrapup comments later tonight when I get back home
JPB: “The internet archive gives me hope that these things will be saved…”
JPB: “I think there’s a kind of obscurity in having too much information available.. the more abundant something is the less value people place on it..
JPB: “I think we have to be careful about how we save the history of the present….”
JPB: “I have copies of every email I’ve ever received.. and donated them to the Berkman center…”
JPB: “we live in an interesting time.. and assuming there’s a future, it would be good to have people in that future who understand what it was we were thinking when we went through this enormous transition in human society that I believe we’re in the midst of right now…”
This was quite a thought provoking session, more thoughts to come, but we’re at the final session now…
JPB: “it takes alot of genuine self-confidence to admit that you’re wrong.. or admit that you’re weak…”
JPB: “I am dazzled at how many really good writers there are out there…”
Someone made a comment about his daughter reading JPB’s Eulogy for Dr. Cynthia Horner and how it touched her so much that she sat down and wrote a letter to Barlow about it and got a response. How people learn about others because of their blogs. I love this piece and used the same concept and heartfelt writing for my own eulogy for my grandmother that died in 1996.
Lisa Williams: “We will be reading some blogs long after their authors are gone… the average life of the average person is obliterated by history.”
More coming…
JPB: “I feel like the web is an enormous step backwards. I was on the well and elsewhere where things were really about conversations and not about publication”
Dave Winer: “They have the power to stop you, but on your blog they don’t”
JPB: “Death is a form of failure in America.”
Dave Winer: “The thing about John that I love is that he shows that it’s ok to be a man and show an emotional side…”
JPB: “We live in this uncomparable world of bullshit.”
Unknown: “In blogs, we’re the characters and sometimes we get away from ourselves”
Lenn brings up this example of blog entries that family and others read and then bring into the real life world and ask about them…
Dave Winer: “People think they know you, but they really just know some facts about you…”
JPB: “But Dave, you piss everybody off…. Piss is the water in which you swim… and everybody loves you anyway…”
Dave Winer: “And I piss myself off too…”
Dave Winer: “Do this for me.. go back 24 hours later and read the same thing that you read that pissed you off and see if it still does.. […] If I try to not take it all personally, I ask a few questions.. therefore, I know what I said just triggered something.. I’m just a mirror for them…”
Red: “I got called a slut by someone who reads my weblog…”
Unknown: “Was that an insult or a compliment?”
JPB: “Well, if they’re picking on me, they’re leaving someone else alone…”
Dan Gillmor: “I tend to defend the facts when people attack me and leave the personal stuff alone… you develop somewhat of a thicker skin over time..”
Unknown: “what if they’re right – I post retractions….”
More coming
Sooz has a picture of me here from BloggerCon II.
I forgot my cables so my photos will be up later.
JPB’s Page – Blog.
JPB: “I always wanted to know what bloggers looked like. I’m not suprised. You’re a congenial bunch, I find you easier to be with rather than the content protection association”
JPB: “I feel like such a bloggish neophyte that I’m really here more to learn from you folks.”
JPB: “The topic that Dave and I agreed upon about five minutes ago…
JPB: “Shortly after I began blogging, a very close friend of mine disappeared. Spalding Gray.”
JPB: “What i didn’t know is that I was creating a space where people could write about him, and their feelings about losing him, but also about depression and suicide and madness, and things that people generally don’t write about…”
JPB: “this white middle class world is impoverished in its ability to be collectively and emotionally open. there’s not alot of space to do what people who were posting to my blog were doing”
more to come…