Some take-aways from Friday night’s Blogger’s party:
*Need to spend more time thinking about archiving, making it easier for folks to access the archives, and for all those folks who come from Google and elsewhere to find what they came here looking for. Good discussion with Kristin and Paul about this.
*Need to follow-up Adam Greenfield‘s lead about “metadata” and “faceted classification” and ensuring that what I create today is useable in the future. And I will try to heed Adam’s advice that I shouldn’t be so self-deprecating.
*There’s no answer to the question as to why some blogs get a ton of comments per entry, and some blogs (like this one) don’t. But a good discussion about that one all the same.
*I’m not the only one who feels pressure to maintain their blogs.
*Need to take more pictures. Thanks Mike for the push.
*Need to remember that if I’m going to post about the haircut I had the day before the party, it will surely come up in conversation.
*I have no idea how to pronounce the name of this site. Never envisioned that would be a problem until Friday night.
*Open your eyes when someone’s taking your photo, no matter how much you feel the photo will look (for it will look worse if your eyes are closed).
*A lot of talk about BBS’s and the old days, and the implied links to blogging. Sadly, most of it was over my head, having come to online communication after that.
*Thoroughly enjoyed a nice non-blogging conversation about parenthood with Mike’s wife, Karen.
*3½ hours was not nearly enough time to meet all the different bloggers there, nor to have quality conversations with all of them, especially when one isn’t Mr. Congeniality. There’s always next time (I hope).
Now, if I could only have taken away some of the food!
Big thanks to Mike and Nadine for organizing everything.
Other reads (some with photos) on the event can be found at:
Antipixel
Big in Japan
Cerebral Soup
Domo Domo
The Dynamic Duo
Japan Blog
Japan-Sync
Stuart Woodward
Wirefarm
UPDATE (March 3): Co-organizer Hunkabutta Mike has put up up his photos and comments (see 03.02.03 entry), and Mie has written up something as well, accompanied by shots from her cellphone.
