This is a post I intended to write over a week ago, after I attended, as a panelist, the Bloggers Lunch event at TechEd at the Gold Coast, up the road from where I live. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, that was a Twitter-enabled opportunity.
And on yet another blog I mentioned a couple of the live blogging posts on the event:
About the Bloggers’ Lunch panel at TechEd, Long Zheng blogged it live with some seriously good photography of all the panel and individual members. Nick Hodge blogged it live too and captured the conversation very impressively, imho.
So why mention it again, here? To get links? Well, I won’t object, but the lunch was over a week ago so it’s not exactly hot news.
No, my main reason for mentioning the event here is that I noticed other bloggers from the lunch dropping in here and was more than somewhat mortified to realise that this did not present as a very active blog. The post before this one was almost two months ago.
In fact I post much more frequently at Business and Blogging and Thinking Home Business. But the casual visitor was not to know that. So at one level this is a kind of “hello, there is someone home and I do blog, really” message for anyone who might understandably wonder what I was doing as a Bloggers Lunch panelist.
I wanted also to list a couple of other blogs which covered the lunch and the topic, which was Web 2.0 (terminology which at least one panelist denounced in the strongest terms). The discussion raised some important issues and inevitably the lunch break, panel format meant that we really only skimmed the surface of those issues. A good discussion nevertheless.
Rob Farley, who had to leave early, reports on an interesting question he asked about blogging and journalism.
“Mr Leaf” from Perth, WA, was there too, live blogging and obviously loving it.
I’m sure I’ve seen at least one other post, with some details of the conversation, in my few dips into the blogosphere in the past week or so. If you posted something and I haven’t listed it here, please give us the link in the comments.
Update - 2 hours later: thanks to an incoming link, I’ve found again one of the more detailed blog posts on the event by Andrea Roceal James of WebARJ.
