- BloggerCon
BloggerCon is a user-focused conference for the
blog ger community. BloggerCon I (October 2003) and II (April 2004), were organized byDave Winer and friends atHarvard Law School 'sBerkman Center for the Internet and Society in Cambridge, Mass. Bloggercon III took place in San Francisco (June 2006). According to theOnline Journalism Review , "BloggerCon has lots of cooks, but the chief chef is technologistDave Winer , co-founder ofRSS and the patient zero of blogging. BloggerCon exists because Winer wants it to happen." [Cite newslast = Kramer
first = Staci D
title = Two Cities, Two Gatherings for Two Kinds of Content Creators
work = Online Journalism Review
accessdate = 2008-08-17
date = 2004-11-19
url = http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/041119kramer/print.htm
]
BloggerCon I was initially planned to be financed without corporate sponsors by charging $500 to attend. This plan sparked controversy. [Cite news
last = Orlowskifirst = Andrew
title = Webloggers deal Harvard blog-bores a black eye
work = The Register
accessdate = 2008-08-17
date = 2003-08-13
url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08/13/webloggers_deal_harvard_blogbores/
] A second, free day was later added to the program. For BloggerCon II and III, there was no registration cost -- voluntary contributions only.
On the first, paid day of Bloggercon I, four panels discussed the interaction of blogging with journalism, education, marketing, and presidential politics. The second day's panels included various technical and infrastructure issues such as RSS, news aggregators, and what was then called
audioblogging . The first BloggerCon brought together audioblogging pioneers with developers whose collective efforts led to the phenomenon that spread six months later under the name podcasting.For BloggerCon II, the format was changed to create an
unconference , with audience participation sessions, loosely moderated by a discussion leader, rather than formal panels or keynotes. One invited participant, Iranian bloggerHoder , was unable to get a visa. [Cite weblast = Jarvis
first = Jeff
title = From a distance
work = BuzzMachine
accessdate = 2008-08-17
date = 2004-04-17
url = http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_04_17.html#006868
] He and others were still able to participate in the discussion via an IRC channel projected on a screen.
BloggerCon III met at
Stanford Law School on November 6, 2004. Popular sessions included "Podcasting " withAdam Curry , "Overload" withRobert Scoble , and "Making Money" withDoc Searls . It was broadcast with help from [http://www.itconversations.com ITConversations] . Many also participated using IRC.BloggerCon helped inspire the July 30, 2005
BlogHer conference. Fact|date=May 2007BloggerCon IV took place in San Francisco on June 23-24, 2006.
References
External links
* [http://www.bloggercon.org BloggerCon Homepage]
* [http://www.bloggercon.org/III/newbies BloggerCon for Newbies]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20031008042921/blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon/ BloggerCon I] (Internet Archive )
* [http://www.bloggercon.org/ii/ BloggerCon II]
* [http://www.bloggercon.org/iii/ BloggerCon III]
* [http://www.bloggercon.org/iv/ Bloggercon IV]
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