BloggerCon Ironing
Yeah, the ironing was delicious. The content of BloggerCon was fairly lame-looking, but the people there were (well, are) rather interesting! (Full disclosure: a very interesting online friend of mine was an attendee.) I caught the webcast of the last session of Day 2—Dave Winer got visibly and audibly agitated when it was suggested that users don't matter that much. But yeah, it just seemed silly to me: people talking in realspace about something that happens almost exclusively in cyberspace. I can stay home and not pay $500 to do that! I don't even need to dress (much less dress up) to do that!
Before she went, the aforementioned friend of mine wondered who I would want to meet if I were attending, and my list was pretty long. [List forthcoming, although the point is now moot, isn't it?] Yeah, relatively few young, non-white, female participants. All categories, individually were underrepresented. It turns out, though, that my friend is young, non-white and female, so she at least bumped up the cumulative average.
Oh well, better luck next year, right?
