A weblog by Christopher Carfi, since 2004.
BlogHer ’06 had 700+ attendees on Day 2. Daniel Terdiman writes:
“In what might be the largest-ever event of its kind, hundreds of women bloggers will gather here Friday and Saturday for the second annual BlogHer conference.”
So, now I’m stumped. Forget the “of it’s kind” qualifier — is BlogHer the largest blogging conference, period?
(If’n I remember, BloggerCon III back in 2004 was about 350 attendees or so, and BloggerCon IV a few weeks ago was maybe half that…)
“Stop making lists! Enough with the lists! You know what, the people making the lists…they are the ones who are on top of the lists!” – Mena Trott (responding to Craig Williams‘ question “what can male bloggers be doing differently?”)
“Fearlessness is not absence of fear. Fearlessness is not letting fear stop us.” – Arianna Huffington
“Technology is for folks.” – Grace Davis
(live from BlogHer)
“I’m not a great photographer. My pictures are not worth 1000 words. My pictures are worth, like, 50 words, and I have to write the other 950.” – Eden Kennedy
“‘Community’ is a very big word right now. The trend is toward community and closer interactions with customers.” – Charlene Li
(live from Blogher)
“I have made a distinction between pseudonymous blogs and ‘other identity’ blogs. A pseudonymous blog is written by someone under an anonymous identity, who fully admits that his or her identity is secret. An ‘other identity’ blog is one that the blogger writes under an identity that is not his or her ‘true’ identity and is not disclosed to be ‘other’. I have decided to use the word ‘other’ to remove moral implications that words such as false or fake carry. I also italicize truth because truth is a subjective concept upon a large continuum of experience.” – Stephanie Hendrick (more here)
“Girls have ‘shopping blogs’ and guys have ‘cool hunting’ sites.” – From the room discussion from the commercial venture session at BlogHer.
“People can smell fake a million miles away.” – Maggie Mason, on using blogs for commercial ventures.