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Friday morning at ConJosé I attended a Special Interest Group set up by a few Live Journal users. I’ve looked at Live Journal before; of all the various web log systems it seems to be the one most focused on community in the sense of creating communities via links to like minded Live Journal [...]

Saturday I attended the Con José panel on “Computer Folklore: Tales from the Geekside,” featuring Eric Raymond, Chris Garcia, Tom Galloway, Brett Glass, and Corey Cole. Aside from a brief discussion of the first chain letter (an MIT student did it!) it wasn’t what I’d expected, though that’s OK. There are some good sources [...]

I went to the Con José “Blog this!” panel I mentioned here. The panel featured Lucy Huntzinger, Moshe Feder, Evelyn C. Leeper, Bill Humphries, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Patrick Nielsen Hayden. My remarks are somewhat disconnected (and as opinionated as usual) since I only took notes when a specific point struck me. It was also cool [...]

Bill Humphries, a Mac user and blogger, is also at the Con, and will be speaking on a blogging panel “Blog This! (or, Blogology Recapitulates Mimeography)” on Saturday 11:30am. The description reads:

What is Blogging and why should you care? This new form of online diaries has taken fandom by storm. The mainstream world is [...]

Yes, that’s right, I’m doing something purely frivolous, I’m attending the World Con for most of this week. I’m going to try blogging as well—I figure why not? And I notice there’s a couple of other bloggers here, Cory Doctorow, and Eric Raymond, which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to link to his Cathedral [...]