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October 18, 2005

Odds and ends from BlogOn 2005

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Posted by Dominic Basulto

The Blog On social media summit took place at the Copa on Monday and Tuesday, and the blog postings are starting to roll in: Chris Shipley's opening remarks, Susan Mernit's take on Seth Godin's kickoff speech, Jeff Nolan's personal conversation with the event's sponsors (i.e. where was the wireless network?), Buzz Machine's concern about the number of PR and marketing folks attending the conference and Steve Hall's preview of the "Can Advertising Be Social?" panel.

Since the wireless network at the Copa only worked sporadically during the conference, blogging around the event was less than one would expect from laptop-toting blog enthusiasts -- for now, it's been mostly authors plugging books they've recently published, pundits covering the same ground they covered at earlier meetings, and blog widget-makers trying to sell new widgets to the same people. Who knows? Maybe I just need to take another swig of the Blog Kool-Aid...

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