Northern Voice

<a href="http://www.northernvoice.ca/">Canadian blogging conference</a> held 2005, 2006 and 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Register now for Northern Voice 2006
The conference will have a self-organizing session on Friday Feb. 10 and formal sessions on Saturday Feb. 11.

A Classic Dominance Display

Richard hanging at the registration desk

This is me, with what Dave Pollard describes as “the arms on top of the head, hand on wrist, elbows out. The very picture of stag antlers, and a classic dominance display.”

This photo was taken by at Northern Voice 2005 while I skipped out on the second half of a session. (To protect the identity of the session's participants, I have forgotten whose it was.) The photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. You may make derivative works in a non-commercial manner as long as you attribute Boris Mann as the photographer.

Time passes and Darren creates an absolutely hilarious derivative work. I laughed for several seconds. Out loud. In a library.

&quot;Règle n°1 : il n&#039;y a pas de règles.&quot;
("Rule #1: there are no rules.) That is with regards to blogging. Karl feels exactly how I felt about Tim Bray's presentation at Northern Voice.
Ted Leung&#039;s Northern Voice recap
His perspective (that of father taking care of the kids in the audience while Mom spoke as a panelist) was very interesting.

Conference

Darren Barefoot links to some Northern Voice-related information. I'm attending the conference this weekend, and will attend the blogger meetup just before. Looking at the conference schedule, I can say without a doubt that in the morning I'll be attending Julie Leung's session on blogging about family and the session on 'community blogging'. (Podcasting and video blogging are boring.) The toss-ups in the afternoons are between promoting weblogs and increasing traffic (because Suw Charman is one of the panelists) and "Blogging in Academia", even though I'm done with school for the foreseeable future. A more difficult toss-up is between the session on citizen journalism and personal blogging styles.

While at the conference, I'm bringing my laptop, but won't take notes or surf during the presentations or even join the backchannel if there is one. I'm not taking photos either. I just want to sit back and listen to what the speakers and panelists have to say rather than concentrate on whatever technology is directly in front of me. As a straight computer nerd, my skipping out halfway through a Python conference to go watch the Gay Pride says something about how much I like going to these kinds of things, though I'm looking forward to meeting some people, non-locals and locals alike who share a passion and who I already know are interesting people.

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