O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
San Diego has been invaded by bloggers and geeks from around the world attending the annual O’Reilly Emergent Technology Conference which officially kicked off last night and will continue through Thursday at the Convention Center.
As Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing noted last week, this conference marks the first time that the entire Boing Boing gang (just awarded best blog and best group blog in the Bloggies) will be at the same place during the same time.
This just in … Boing Boing also reports that 400 or so conference participants are becoming violent and unpredictable as they have been cut off from their Slashdot RSS feeds. Hopefully are lovely convention center won’t be burned down.
Finally, for a local blogger’s coverage of the event, make sure to follow Brianstorms.
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mikey said on Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 15:22
boing boing. sheesh. sorry, but i don’t consider boing boing to be a “blog”. it’s a freakin glorified link dump. it’s Fark with an extra descriptive sentence. i don’t think it should ever win any blog awards.
and really, i hope that someone who’s new doesn’t think that the people at that conference are representative of “bloggers”. i hate how news organizations don’t differentiate between the many different types of bloggers. i mean, there are political bloggers. there are techie bloggers. yeah, they get a lot of coverage. but there’s almost never any mention of the “social” bloggers… the ones who blog every day, but don’t get paid for it (and it doesn’t help them professionally). the ones who blog just for the fun of it. we get nothing.
eh, it’s just a rant. but once, just once, i’d like to see a conference where “normal” bloggers are invited.
oso said on Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 22:58
BloggerCon.
mikey said on Thursday, March 17, 2005, 12:32
please! i know you mean well, but bloggercon is all tech geeks, too. i mean, Dave Winer posts there.
i’d really like to see gatherings of “social” bloggers. i guess that’s what meetup was all about, but nobody went to those.
sorry, but it’s a little sore spot for me. i mean, if you ask the average person who’s heard of “blog”, they automatically think your either uber-political, or a total geek. in actuality, there are scores of everyday people who don’t talk politics or tech that blog. i wish we could be recognized (or at least acknowledged more).
oso said on Saturday, March 19, 2005, 19:01
Mikey,
I agree with you. There are plenty of people (the majority?) out there blogging not because they’re confused enough to think they’re changing the world, but just to get a laugh and meet some people.
But most people do read what they’re interested in whether it’s politics, technology, law, med school, or whatever. And it seems like the conferences tend to center around the intererests … which makes sense. If you have a conference with a bunch of people who don’t have anything in common except that they don’t blog about technology or politics, what are they going to talk about?
Anyway, I was hoping the last San Diego Bloggers Meetup wasn’t going to be just about blogging and technology, but inevitably that’s what we talked about because that’s what we’ve got in common. The solution is obviously alcohol and truth or dare.
Georganna Hancock said on Thursday, March 31, 2005, 17:58
First, it’s “emerging”, not “emergent”, although sometimes that would apply; secondly, the conference took place in a hotel, not the convention center; and thirdly, Cory was amazing, posting the action to Boing Boing almost instantaneously. I don’t know how he finds time to write all that he does, and yet sat down with me for a half-hour interview during a break. Several of the other author-speakers were kind enough to do the same, and I’ve blogged about some of the conversations at Writer’s Edge, Lockergnome, and Blogcritics.