Tuesday, December 10, 2002

"planned a blogger's conference with Doc and Scoble" Dinner report. Dinner last night was fantastic. About fifty people filled Jing Jing. Monday night is a good night to do this, there was plenty of room. Great conversations, cameras, wild food (Marc Canter did the ordering) and a fair $20 per mouth price. Lots of people came from the East Bay (Brad Neuburg got his ride from Scott Mace). Saw Chris Gulker, Nick Denton, Raines Cohen, got to hang out with the new skinny Doc, planned a blogger's conference with Doc and Scoble, met Dave Sifry, an interesting guy, and got reinvigorated on the My Weblog Outliner tool, which I will revive sometime very soon, sorry for the delay. Hey the nicest moment of the evening, even though it was horribly embarassing, was the enthusiastic round of applause I got when I walked into the restaurant and saw the scene. The cool thing about weblogs is that today in 2002, it attracts the nicest, smartest, and most ambitious people. We kicked butt at the conference during the day, leading Kevin Werbach to say that bloggers rule the world, or something like that, to which I say It's about time y'all figured that out and stop sending PR people to explain technology to us, and be prepared to answer the tough questions, and also be prepared to build on our work. Nothing is more frustrating than a BigCo who sends a glad-hander to tell you how they're going to fail at reinventing everything you had working three years ago. At the dinner a list circulated and instead of signing our names we all entered the URLs of our blogs. Very good. I hope that somehow makes it on to the Web today. After dinner a few of us went for coffee where we ran into Megnut, Cory Doctorow and Lisa Rein who is in town for the Elcomsoft vs Adobe trial. I asked who she's covering it for. "Myself," she said with a confident grin. I felt like I had asked a stupid question, which of course I had. [Scripting News] Now this is interesting. Might it be int he Bay area? Might we piggyback an blogs in education strand on to it? 6:32:24 PM    comment []

San Joaquin Valley blogs in - just donw the highway Weblogs: The Easier Way to Share and Communicate. Weblogs is an easier way for groups to share information as well as give feedback. As Teacher-Consultants in the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project, this is a place to share lesson ideas, professional development opportunities, helpful information, or even to share your own writing. Weblogs are more interactive than a webpage. The SJVWP Webpage is for anyone to learn about the Writing Project and it's workshops. This weblog is only for TCs. In the early summer, I hope to have a mini-institute to share all the things that I have learned about using technology to help teachers develop lessons and to integrate technology seamlessly in your classrooms. Weblogs are very exciting. A few writing project sites are using weblogs in their student writing camps. Students are posting their pieces to an assigned weblog and sharing work with kids at another camp. Very exciting. So get started by clicking the "Join Now" link. [Gail's Groupies & SJVWP Highlights] 5:38:25 PM    comment []