[bc] BloggerCon
I’m at the second BloggerCon, Dave Winer’s do at Harvard.
Dave begins by sketching the shape of the conference. Then he leads us in a sing-along of Take Me Out to the Ballgame and the US national anthem. Really.
Now it’s on to Jay Rosen’s session on blogging and journalism. He’s running it like a 100-person seminar, which is the format of sessions here. Why is blogging moving towards journalism, Jay begins by asking. There is, of course, a spread of opinion. Are blogs moving towards journalism? Are they more like op-eds? Are they muckrakers? Could blogs move towards journalism if they didn’t have real journalists to rely on? Is there a sharp distinction in that journalists have a set of practices and ethics they follow? How does blogging change journalists? Does it alter their attempt to be objective? Does blogging hurt the relationship with sources?
I did a session on blogs in business. “Did a session” means that I facilitated a group discussion. There are no panels here, which is turning out to be a great choice. The moderators actively facilitated, in the mode of Jeff Jarvis’ stellar session last year, keeping the discussions moving and focused. I highly recommend this format to other conference organizers: The audience is the panel.
I’ve spent most of the day taking notes for the IRC, so I don’t have notes for you. Here are some links, though, many from the last session I was able to attend, the one on blogging and religion:
Religion for the non-religious
The Revealer on Bush’s religious language
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