Category: Blogging

SXSW 2006: Blog Bubble Bursts

I’ve been back from SXSW Interactive for more than two weeks and yet I still haven’t posted my thoughts. The reason? Well, I wrote something that was very negative and I’ve been sitting on it. I’m going to post it now, unchanged, but I will add that my malaise seems to have been shared by a number of people. And it appears to be affecting a number of conferences, not just SXSW. I heard a lot of complaints that ETech wasn’t so great this year, for instance. And tech conferences seem to be sprouting up all over the place like weeds. All part of the new “Web 2.0” bubble, I suppose.

But before I post my depressing screed, I will say that I managed to have a pretty good time nonetheless. It’s just too bad that I only get to see some of these amazing people just once a year. For evidence of my merrymaking, check out my photos on Flickr. I’ve posted my photos from 2001 and 2002 on there as well. Ah, nostalgia!

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From The Vaults: Got Blog?

In January 2001, I wrote an article for online magazine About This Particular Macintosh about the burgeoning popularity of “blogs” and now more than five years later, it’s sort of quaint to look at it again. I thought you might think so, too.

March 25: Seems like someone else is getting nostalgic as well. Michael Stillwell of beebo.org posts the list of the most-linked blogs from September 2000. Fascinating. And looking at the text file of the 446 blogs he was working with, probably a large percentage of the existing blogs at the time, brought back good memories of some people who’ve seemingly disappeared from the web.

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