June 7, 2004

joi’s london blog meetup

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Just got back from Lon­don and a fabu­lous din­ner with other UK blog­gers, plus Joi Ito who was in town.
Most of the details are here. And some of Gerard’s pho­tos here.
Thanks to Ima­jes and Suw for doing such a great job orga­ni­zing it.
High­lights? There were many. It was great mee­ting ever­yone, and great mee­ting Joi in per­son finally (who was utterly wiped from jet­lag– a great effort on his part, methinks).
Well, without recap­ping every sin­gle con­ver­sa­tion that went on, this was what see­med cen­tral to a lot of the con­ver­sa­tions I was hear­ning:
Yeah, great, blogs are won­der­ful. They are won­der­ful tech­no­logy. They are won­der­ful pro­blem sol­vers. They are won­der­ful solu­tions.
The next big leap for blog­gers, I believe, is to worry less about what the solu­tion is, and think har­der about the actual pro­blems.
And the pro­blems aren’t tech­no­lo­gi­cal– they are human.
No mat­ter where tech­no­logy takes you, it always, always, always ends up taking you to the same place i.e. loo­king in the mirror.
Exci­ting times, these…

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