Talk:BloggerCon

Trying to jump-start the process of adding sources and info
BloggerCon 1 (October 2003) was the place where audioblog content-creators like Chris Lydon, technology innovators like Dave Winer and Kevin Marks, and podcasting mega-enthusiast Adam Curry all collided and generated the optimistic fervor that kicked off podcasting. It was originally planned by Dave Winer as a one-day event with no paying sponsors, funded by having attendees-who-could-pay kick in $500--later a free day was added to the plan. The "friends" mentioned as co-conspirators in the BloggerCon article were essentially his friends at Harvard's Berkman Center, where he was a fellow. I know the Berkman Center gave him some money and paid some salary for Wendy (now Mrs. Accordion-Guy) to help him. Lots of details were also hammered out in the Berkman Thursday night blogger meetings there, organized and run by Dave, which I irregularly attended. I added my comments but I didn't plan to attend. I mean, I'm no bizblogger, and...$500????

I wasn't the only one with this objection. The run-up to the Bloggercon 1 generated a huge amount of anti-Dave flame-age, eagerly picked up by Andrew Orlowski of the Register, and here we get to my first "encyclopedia-quality" source:

A later blast from the Register gives you more of the 2003 attitude toward blogging and Bloggercon:.

Planning for Bloggercon 1 continued--a free day was added, with a schedule tailored less toward "professionals" and more toward "bloggers." One day before the event Dave said that he/Harvard would "comp" me (because of my Berkman group membership?) so I could go to the paid day also. Woo-hoo! I live-blogged it in short quotes, if you want a contemporaneous account and.

At Bloggercon 2 (April 2004), Dave introduced what he called an "unconference" format, re-casting speakers as discussion leaders who call on people in the audience. . Another remarkable feature of Bloggercon 2 was its inclusion in the discussion of people attending only via IRC, for example the Iranian blogfather Hoder, who had been denied a Visa. Some of the highlights as I saw them then are still available in my blog archives:  and  and  and. Okay, more later--do others have info or links? betsythedevine 01:42, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Journalism Panel discussion (first panel of the day October 4, 2003)
Although this came to be called the "blogs and journalism panel", it was referred to way back in the planning stages as "blogging and media" panel. That's what Ed Cone blogged that he'd gotten an invitation to chair back in June of :

I'm going to quote Ed's blog at length here because it include speaker bios and is, I believe, closely based on the original Bloggercon announcement.


 * I am happy to announce the panelists for the BloggerCon discussion of weblogs and the media. The media panel will discuss weblogs as tools for practicing journalism.


 * The panelists are Josh Marshall, Glenn Reynolds, Scott Rosenberg, and me. I'm the moderator, wish me luck. We hope to cover a lot of ground, and our best subject matter may crop up on the morning of the conference, but we're likely to talk about stuff like this:


 * ·        how reporters, writers, and pundits can and will use weblogs
 * ·        how traditional media outlets will use and adapt to blogs and bloggers
 * ·        changes in institutional media culture caused by weblogs
 * ·        the future of weblogging for pay
 * ·        celebrity bloggers
 * ·        interplay between blogs and the rest of the media
 * ·        the rights of media-company employees to maintain private weblogs
 * ·        peer editing and fact-checking in the blogosphere
 * ·        blogs as sources of localized and international news


 * BloggerCon will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2003 at Harvard Law School.


 * The panelists:


 * Joshua Micah Marshall, author of the Talking Points Memo weblog, is a columnist for The Hill and contributing writer for Washington Monthly. A pioneer at reporting stories on his blog, then synthesizing them into more fully-realized versions in physical form. He was instrumental in keeping the Trent Lott story alive last year.


 * Glenn Reynolds, aka InstaPundit. This University of Tennessee law professor links to and comments on an enormous volume of material each day, and has become in the process an influential opinion-maker in his own right, complete with his own MSNBC.com column.


 * Scott Rosenberg is managing editor of the seminal online magazine Salon and shepherd of its weblog community. A veteran of newspaper and Web journalism, he spent ten years at the San Francisco Examiner as a theater critic, movie critic, and technology columnist.


 * Edward Cone has written extensively about weblogs and their use in journalism and politics. Currently a senior writer for Ziff Davis Media and an opinion columnist for the Greensboro News & Record, he has been a contributing editor at Wired, a staff writer at Forbes, and a freelancer.

I (Betsy Devine) would also like to mention that it was Dave Winer who picked Ed Cone to moderate, the same Edward Cone who had written that not-very-admiring biography of Winer published in Wired in 2001:, calling Dave "grouchy", a "dead software guy", etc. and noting that it had been "ages since his last big hit as a programmer."

Tech analyst Susan Mernit, now working at Yahoo, live-blogged the discussion: betsythedevine 23:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Bloggercon "technical" panel (October 5, 2003, the added "free day"
Discussion leader: Susan Mernit

Panelists: Kevin Marks, Epeus epigone -- Frank Paynter, Sandhill Trek -- tecch analyst Amy Wohl -- software guru Dan Bricklin -- Scott Brodeur, Mass-Live.com/weblogs -- Scott Johnson, Feedster

I blogged some pull-quotes

Weblogs and medicine panel (October 5, 2003)
Doctors talked about their use of weblogging, more from JK Baumgart

Weblog Infrastucture]
Andrew Grumet was the moderator, and "The primary contributors were Erin Clerico of Weblogger, Ross Karchner of Localfeeds, and Scott Johnson of Feedster," according to  JK Baumgart  betsythedevine 02:11, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Final session (October 5, 2003)
I've added these sections in the hope that others will post some links to encyclopedia-quality or at least contemporaneous accounts. betsythedevine 23:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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