Integrating Blogging

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Nat Torkington
May. 21, 2002 01:16 PM
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The comment on blogging at etcon by pwainewright is prescient. Ideas for OSCON blogging are already being thrown around ... On Monday I sent this around within O'Reilly:

I wonder if there are specific ways we can foster conference blogging and participation. Perhaps:

an aggregator just for conference content (a topic-specific Meerkat, where bloggers would register their RSS feed)
announcing the irc server and channel everyone should rendezvous on, and having a few bots there to say things like "coming up in Room XYZ ..." (I think it was London.pm who did this last year for OSCON, and I'm giving them the data I screenscraped from the conferences website so they can do it again)
have the home page for the terminal room browsers be an anonymous "blog your conference comment" page, with the comments blog public (we don't have to have an employee police it for negative comments, this is a conference, not a teenager's poetry)
ensure adequate power strippage :-)

--Nat

Nat Torkington is conference planner for the Open Source Convention, OSCON Europe, and other O'Reilly conferences. He was project manager for Perl 6, is on the board of The Perl Foundation, and is a frequent speaker on open source topics. He cowrote the bestselling Perl Cookbook.

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Have you seen the blog grid?
2002-05-21 15:33:04 aaronsw [View]

You could also have a blog grid like the one I made for the Emerging Technologies conference.

Have you seen the blog grid?
2002-05-21 20:48:42 Nat Torkington | [View]

Your grid inspired my message! Yes, that was awesome. I noticed holes, too--areas that bloggers didn't comment on. If we had enough bloggers that I could be sure it was a representative sample, I would use blog volume as a measure of popularity for sessions so I'd know what to do more of next year.

Not, of course, that bloggers' interests remain stable year to year :-)

--Nat

Have you seen the blog grid?
2002-05-21 23:16:52 Kim Walls | [View]

I love the blog grid. Wow. This is a great resource. We should have this for all of our conferences.

I guess I would wish for a slight modification to the interface so that you can identify the speakers at the sessions and then quickly differentiate via font or icon, which names represent blog entries written by individuals.

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