Friday, September 8, 2006
Blogcamp tomorrow
Blogcamp is tomorrow. I’ve been on the planning list the last few weeks (mostly lurking) and now have a better sense of what’s going on.
As noted before, the core planning team has been far more concerned with staging a grand event than with figuring out what is going to make it so grand. To this end, they’ve done a remarkable job. They’ve also turned out to take criticism very well — Kiruba Shankar in particular deserves mention — and have graciously allowed “outsiders” to take over content planning, which Dina Mehta, Neha Viswanathan and Peter Griffin have done.
The event still lacks focus. It’s not clear exactly what aspect of blogging is to be discussed, as “all of it” is too generic to mean much. I’m going to speak about the public nature of conversation on the web, but in the absence of anyone else covering a related topic, I’ll have to cover a large breadth and sacrifice depth, as will several others. Thankfully, it appears that sufficiently large numbers of thoughtful and articulate people are planning to attend, so that alone should make up for it.
If you are attending, see you in Chennai tomorrow.