{"id":1551,"date":"2005-07-31T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/07\/31\/i_came_i_went.html"},"modified":"2005-07-31T20:17:47","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T20:17:47","slug":"i_came_i_went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/07\/31\/i_came_i_went.html","title":{"rendered":"i came, i went&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sims.berkeley.edu\/~dmb\/images\/Blogher.GIF\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a>So, Blogher was a complete and utter trip.  It was great to see old friends and meet new ones.  I have to admit that i was totally overwhelmed by the level of energy that so many people had &#8211; i totally crashed last night as a result.  I spent the bulk of my day hearing the voices of different types of bloggers &#8211; the hiphop bloggers, the teen bloggers, the academic bloggers, the mommy bloggers.  I had _no_ idea how many mommy bloggers were out there or the struggles with voice that they experience.  That alone made the entire conference worth it for me.<\/p>\n<p>Things got a little strange for me at the end.  I was supposed to introduce the keynote speaker, Caterina Fake (Flickr).  Caterina was supposed to speak about Yahoo! and what they&#8217;re doing in the social media space.  (Yahoo! was a featured sponsor of the conference and the keynote position was given to them; they nominated Caterina to speak.)  Due to an unexpected family crisis, she wasn&#8217;t able to come at the last minute.  So, instead of introducing her, i ended up doing a brief ad-hoc explanation of why i am consulting for the Yahoo! Research Labs-Berkeley, briefly explaining Jeff Weiner&#8217;s FUSE model &#8211; Find, Use, Share, Expand (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbag.org\/archives\/2005\/06\/supernova_05_jeff_weiner_from_yahoo.shtml\">Supernova<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/snarkmarket.com\/blog\/snarkives\/technosnark\/supernova_jeff_weiner\/\">notes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/001473.php\">Weiner interviews<\/a> ).  I do genuinely believe that Jeff gets it and i love his model so i was happy to represent his mission, but it felt a little strange to be speaking as an insider when i just got my contractor badge 3 days ago.  So trippy.<\/p>\n<p>The point is&#8230; i was there.. it was fun&#8230; and i&#8217;m really really bad at writing up notes about what actually happened.  Mostly, i had really good conversations and it was really invigorating to hear different perspectives and have conversations that i haven&#8217;t had over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>(And now, i&#8217;m in a strange hotel in the middle of Michigan where i&#8217;m going to have to miraculously remember matrix algebra before tomorrow so as to not embarrass myself in front of a professor that i admire.  ::gulp::)<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blogher\" rel=\"tag\">blogher<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Blogher was a complete and utter trip. It was great to see old friends and meet new ones. I have to admit that i was totally overwhelmed by the level of energy that so many people had &#8211; i totally crashed last night as a result. I spent the bulk of my day hearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}