There is now some time gone after the 2 days of BlogTalk. To review it briefly: it was great thanks to the speakers and thanks to the audience. We were some 130 from all over the world. Briefly after the conference a discussion emerged about a possible BlogTalk 3.0 and more general about the format of the conference. I replied to that on randgaenge.net.

This the view from the panel just before I opened the conference.

For those of you that are interested in what the press had to say, please click and check out the press-corner.

There are pictures available, of course, too many to get hold of. Google it and see the mix of BlogTalk 1.0 and BlogTalk 2.0.

bfn Thomas N. Burg

Well, the first day went very well. We had lots of fascinating talks and discussions in- and outside of the conference location. Our obsession took us even to a restaurant somewhere in the 7th district of Vienna to engage in further discussion about the topic. It had to end, of course. Yesterdays live stream had a peak of 1300 users that was too much at some point but a success on the other side ;-) Now, I'm looking forward to today as more interesting contributions are to come. Finally the update of the program: the Deutsche Welle World will announce their international Weblog Award BOB (=Best of Blogs) tomorrow afternoon. Please check the program for further details.
Posted on 7/6/04; 12:41:12 AM #

Well here we go, this is the link to the conference stream. If everything works out fine we will offer one for modem and one for dsl/cable. You need the Quicktime Player to watch it. But: looking forward to meet you in meatspace, you know.
Posted on 7/4/04; 7:42:46 PM #

Nicola Döring represents another academic approach(communications and media studies) to the phenomenon of blogs. She is psychologist and has an intensive relation to online communication and the research side of it.



Posted on 2/26/04; 12:46:51 PM #

Torill Mortensen represents the academic approach towards the new phenomenon her expertise is especially in the field of games.

Torill: I am working on a model for research into social spaces created and maintained through personal publishing and multi-user games. This is a convergence of my interests in blogging and the experience from the work on my thesis, defended 12th of September 2003: Pleasures of the Player: Flow and Control in Online Games.

Mark Bernstein from Eastgate - well known for Tinderbox, Hypertext tools, also publisher of Tekka a Web magazine that's dedicated to the art and research of new media and software tools - joins us for the conference.


Posted on 2/24/04; 6:04:13 PM #

I'm happy to inform you that Mena and Ben Trott will keynote. They contributed a lot to the blogosphere with their well-known software Moveable Type and their Weblog Service TypePad.

We are looking forward to talk with them about the future developments of micro content-management-systems, weblog software, standards and the like.


Posted on 2/24/04; 1:05:58 PM #