Will WordCamp result in a new blogging elite

August 6, 2006

I’ve been following a fair bit of WordCamp coverage online today, and I can’t help but think: is this the start of the new blogging elite? and I mean that in a positive way, not a negative, after all, there’s no Dave Winer, Robert Scoble or the other usual suspects at this conference. Sure, you’ve got the newly VC funded Om Malik, but if anything Om is new guard, not old guard. Wish I could have been there, some great speakers, people I’ve been following in the Blogosphere but aren’t part of the old guard like Prince Campbell (chartruse)…..it’s bloody great stuff. Viva la new guard! Lets just hope this is the first of many new guard conferences to come…I might even be able to eventually discover how to get on a plane and attend one 🙂

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9 responses to Will WordCamp result in a new blogging elite

  1. Matt August 6, 2006 at 11:34 am

    I can’t agree with you enough on this one — No winer, no scoble, no searls… Instead you had Brazell, Char leading sessions.. you had Krug covering the conference along with others.

    A new elite? we can only hope.

    matt

  2. David Krug August 7, 2006 at 1:46 am

    Yeah to bad you werent there. But I dont think a new blogging elite will emerge. In fact I think you will see a non blogging elite emerge as a result of stuff like this.

  3. duncan August 7, 2006 at 8:33 am

    Maybe elite was the wrong word…but you get the idea.

  4. Jessica Doyle August 7, 2006 at 11:20 am

    You know, I don’t know who

    …Dave Winer, Robert Scoble or the other usual suspects…

    are. I have been using the internet since 1996. I don’t seem to end up at their sites when I’m looking for interesting reads or other crazy personalities (likeminds) to stalk and eventually leave a comment on.

    Maybe what is happening is artists (creative people) are able to use the web more efficiently today, than back in the day. Through blogging we get to share what we know, discover, colaborate and learn. It’s an experience unlike any other to be able to communicate with so many and vice versa. New ideas are born this way.

    And by the way I came here via the Blog Herald.
    Cheers!

  5. Tryfan August 17, 2006 at 1:13 pm

    Nice blog

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