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Bloggercon ahoyBloggercon ahoyBloggercon ahoy 09/22/2004 02:23 PM I spoke at the first Bloggercon last year and enjoyed it. Missed the second one last spring. Dave Winer asked me to moderate a discussion at the next one, on Nov. 6 at Stanford, and I was game. The topic is the next phase of the continuing dialogue on blogging and journalism. The previous discussions led by Ed Cone and Jay Rosen set high standards I'll aim to match. I've been a pro journalist for 20 years but I've always been on one fringe or another -- first, as a writer for an alternative weekly; then, as a theater critic on the "wrong" coast, writing for the underdog afternoon paper here in San Francisco; then, as a migrant from the print world to the Web, here at Salon; most recently, as a pro editor turned blogger. Since I started my publishing career in my teens cranking out mimeographed Diplomacy and Dungeons & Dragons magazines in my basement, the new world of self-publishing makes me feel right at home. I'll do my best to steer us out of the shallow familiar waters (is blogging journalism? Of course! Much of the time, anyway) and toward what I feel are the more challenging questions about journalists' and bloggers' symbiotic relationship. I've tried to lay some of them out here. Feel free to join the discussion over on the Bloggercon site, or at the event, or right here. This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Bloggercon ahoyGrok Headline matches for Bloggercon ahoyAhoy? OyAhoy? Oy 06/12/2004 12:00 AM USA Today Jun 12 2004 3:06AM GMT Bowling ahoy!Bowling ahoy! 12/17/2003 11:50 PM Ninepin, tenpin, fivepin, duckpin, candlepin. [more inside] Googlers, ahoy!Googlers, ahoy! 04/28/2004 06:03 AM I don't usually comment on the Google keywords people use to arrive on this site, but about these two (from a single IP within five minutes from each other) I gotta say something: "una ble to form relationships", and "dealing with being ugly". Hell, what can I say? You should start blogging. It is sometimes easier to write to an invisible audience (even though consciously, you know people out there read your blog) than taking up personal issues with friends, relatives or casual acquaintance. It's like a free, bad shrink that just listens and provides no answers. But it does help. The value of the blogs is that it allows different voices to bloom, and find their audience. T his article about dating and blogging says it in the simplest possible terms:
Garden ahoy!Garden ahoy! 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
You too can begin your garden now (where now equals planning and ordering but not necessarily planting since I don't know where you live and what you're planting!), and I cannot recommend the Bountiful Container more strongly. This book has proved so useful time and time again, and I constantly return to its pages for the handholding that I, a novice green thumb, require. Say Ahoy to Big ProfitsSay Ahoy to Big Profits 09/17/2004 02:33 PM Bulk shipping company Excel Maritime increases profits by 338% and rockets ahead on the AMEX. 3G mast wars ahoy!3G mast wars ahoy! 04/15/2005 11:58 AM The Register Apr 15 2005 3:07PM GMT Automotive Bloggers and Writers, Ahoy!Automotive Bloggers and Writers, Ahoy! 07/30/2004 07:07 AM So hey, we've got a couple of interesting opportunities coming up around here for bloggers, and I thought I'd pass along word. The first is that we're looking for someone who is an absolute car nut -- someone like me, but who actually follows the whole industry, not just the part where you crash them into walls -- and who knows how to blog, play nice with others, and write fantastic dick jokes (Choire says that's optional, but I know the truth). If you're interested, send an email with a writing sample (or even better, a link to your blog) to Choire@Google mail. The other opportunity is on Gizmodo, and I'll talk about it after the jump. How to do a BloggerConHow to do a BloggerCon 04/19/2004 06:58 AM In the last Fat Man Sings session (in which the fat man didn't sing) it was suggested that I write a howto that explains how to do a BloggerCon. At that moment, as I was about to complete the job, the thought of doing more work for BC seemed pretty horrible. But the idea stuck and I think it's a worthwhile thing to do, but not something to do all in one shot, rather to do it over time and hope that someone investigating this will use a search engine to find all the bits. BloggerCon 3.0BloggerCon 3.0 08/16/2004 10:29 AM Dave and friends are planning a BloggerCon conference this fall in Palo Alto. Count me in. Hope I can help. BloggerCon:BloggerCon: 04/19/2004 03:01 AM [bc] BloggerCon[bc] BloggerCon 04/17/2004 06:04 PM I'm at the second BloggerCon, Dave Winer's do at Harvard. Dave begins by sketching the shape of the conference. Then he leads us in a sing-along of Take Me Out to the Ballgame and the US national anthem. Really. Now it's on to Jay Rosen's session on blogging and journalism. He's running it like a 100-person seminar, which is the format of sessions here. Why is blogging moving towards journalism, Jay begins by asking. There is, of course, a spread of opinion. Are blogs moving towards journalism? Are they more like op-eds? Are they muckrakers? Could blogs move towards... BloggerCon LinksBloggerCon Links 04/18/2004 09:50 AM Tara has an enormous list of links to folks who wrote about one or more of the BloggerCon sessions. One way she got it was using Feedster, an RSS search engine that I find quite useful. BloggerCon BloggersBloggerCon Bloggers 04/17/2004 08:46 AM Jeff Jarvis is making copious notes about the blogging/journalism session. He types faster than I can. BloggerCon session announcementsBloggerCon session announcements 09/22/2004 08:31 AM Session description: Bloggers and Journalists -- Border Crossings. The next BloggerCon is November 6 at Stanford Law School. Late last week I started working with the discussion leaders, one-to-one, talking about how BloggerCon sessions work, and to get started on the session descriptions. I like to present the sessions one at a time, on the BloggerCon site, and here on Scripting News. Starting today we'll be introducing sessions on a fairly regular basis until the grid is filled in, which will probably be the day before the conference, if memory serves me. ";->" Scott Rosenberg, managing editor of Salon, will lead a discussion on journalism and blogging. He's an ideal person to lead this discussion because he's a skilled reporter, and both a journalist and a blogger. All three BC's have had sessions about journalism. The first discussion was led by Ed Cone, the second by Jay Rosen, and now we turn to Scott Rosenberg. Liloia.com: Blogging BloggerConLiloia.com: Blogging BloggerCon 04/19/2004 12:12 AM just about every single BloggerCon post .. links to Bloggercon blogging .. links liloia.com/archives/000729.php BloggerCon: Presidential BloggersBloggerCon: Presidential Bloggers 04/09/2004 04:00 PM Four years ago, almost no one would have connected the words "presidential" and "weblog" -- the very notion would have seemed bizarre. No longer. At next week's BloggerCon, I propose to look at presidential weblogs from four perspectives:
Presidential Blogs at BloggerConPresidential Blogs at BloggerCon 04/17/2004 08:46 AM I'm leading the discussion later this morning at the BloggerCon gathering on presidential blogging. Two observations: Ideas for Saturday's BloggerCon?Ideas for Saturday's BloggerCon? 04/15/2004 02:24 PM Due to the unavailability of a more qualified/desirable moderator I have been drafted to lead a session at Saturday's BloggerCon. Supposedly there will be nearly 100 people in a single room at Harvard Law School from 1:30-2:45 pm and we're supposed to talk about the concentration of readership among a tiny handful of blogs. An article by Clay Shirky is the original source for the session. This assignment frightens me for a number of reasons. First the original proposition does not seem sufficiently surprising. We are all familiar with the fact that NBC has more viewers than the local public access channel. Second I'm not sure what issue is amenable to a free-form unanchored discussion among 100 people but this one doesn't seem like it. That's one of my stock refrains in the online community world, actually, is that the publisher needs to frame the discussion with articles or the whole site loses focus because nobody can figure out what the purpose is. Anyone have an idea for breaking the participants up into groups of 10, having them do something for 10 minutes, and then report the results to the whole crowd? I think many people there will have laptops and Harvard Law School has wireless access (MIT does too but visitors have to donate a kidney to the I/S department before they are authorized to use it). "just about every single BloggerCon
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