Weblogger BoF

Well, a few other people have posted about the Weblogger's BoF, with mostly good stuff to say.  Frankly, I was rather disappointed.  I realize that bloggers are by nature “Type A” personalities, but c'mon!  Clemens Vasters talked far too much about himself (really!).  He also spent far too much time gloating over how much Das Blog is better than .Text. Perhaps it was in jest, perhaps not, it was difficult to tell.  It was also difficult to hear anyone else speak, as Vasters did not often yield the floor.

 I did enjoy listening to Marc Canter challenge the group, he had a few interesting ideas pertaining to blog-reviewing instead of blog-editorializing.  His main point was basically that many, many people will write a review of a product, movie, etc, but relatively few (only a few million!) people will blog-editorialize.  He suggested building solutions around this new potential blog “market.“

Unfortunately, most of the conversation (nay, argument!) would have been better served over a few beers at a local bar than in front of a room full of people looking for something interesting in the technical state of blogdom.

Robert did a good job of putting this together; I'm just sorry that it wasn't more.