Comments on: BlogNashville Afterthoughts

By: Nicolas Trumen

Nicolas Trumen — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:09:10 +0000

I really liked your comments here. I hope you’re going to update your site soon. , Fantast author

By: Robert Cox

Robert Cox — Wed, 18 May 2005 12:05:22 +0000

Mike,
As you are “wondering why none of the “big” blogging companies didn’t attend?” let me give you some background.
The core portion of the event – the bloggercon-style sessions on Saturday – was originally conceived by Dave Winer as a “user’s conference”. Like past bloggercons, the entire event was consciously non-commercial. We did not bar anyone from coming but after BloggerCon III the message was pretty clear that bloggercons are not trade shows and using them to market products is unwelcome. Note that none of our sponsors were in the blogging business. That is not an accident. There are plenty of places companies can go to market their services but events like BlogNashville are meant to be for/about/with the bloggers.
On a related note, it has come up at past events – and did this again this time – as to why we did not have Blogging 101 courses. For the same reason, the event is for bloggers. Anyone was welcome to come to BlogNashville but the presumption is that you are already blogging and coming to add your experience to the discussions. There are plenty of resources out there for people who want to learn to blog and, quite frankly, it is so simple to set up a basic blog that it seems a waste to take time away from the event to teach people something they can learn in 2 minutes at blogger.com.

By: Lynnette

Lynnette — Fri, 13 May 2005 22:05:04 +0000

Hey Mike!
Great meeting you and hanging out a bit at BlogNashville together.
I just wanted to let you know that I’ve linked to two of your quotes here:
http://thefuntimesguide.com/movabletype/archives/2005/05/blognashville.html
I couldn’t agree more — on both points!

By: BillHobbs.com

BillHobbs.com — Mon, 09 May 2005 13:05:59 +0000

After BlogNashville
Looking for what people have to say about BlogNashville? From live-blogging the sessions, to commenting on the discussions, to pictures taken at and after the event, go to Technorati.com and put “BlogNashville” in the search box. I did it just…

By: mkelley

mkelley — Sun, 08 May 2005 23:05:48 +0000

It was across the street from the Thai place and ’bout two down on the left from the Java place.

By: Adam Shostack

Adam Shostack — Sun, 08 May 2005 23:05:16 +0000

I was in a session about making money because I was hoping to (and did) hear some interesting ideas about making money blogging. I think ads are one approach, and there are probably lots of others, if we think innovatively. But lets not say that ads are the only route.

By: Mr. Roboto

Mr. Roboto — Sun, 08 May 2005 22:05:51 +0000

It was good meeting you. What “watering hole” did you guys end up at on Saturday?

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 08 May 2005 22:05:12 +0000

Mike
Here is a link to part of the brohaha from the political teen.
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/05/08/1360/
You are right about bringing a laptop in to the site. It wore me out trying to live blog the session. I tried to keep my opinions out of the posts. It is very hard to do so. The time constraints and trying to get attributions correct with over 100 people in the session was very difficult.
But it was very educational for me. and hopefully it can act as a tool for those who attended the session.
Tom