thoughtsignals

Since my earlier post (written at 11:27 a.m. but not posted ’til 11:41 a.m.; guess I don’t need to say when I actually write these things), I’ve also met these folks, who I hadn’t met before: Fec Stench, Diane Davis, David Allen, Billy Ingram, Mathew Gross and others whose names I’ve forgotten (I’m very sorry; if you know who you are, please feel free to leave comments).
What struck me most about this whole event (this is the second conference of this type) is how smart the conversations can be when you get folks together in a room. Everybody gets smarter when they’re talking together.

That said, I left the afternoon session on “NORGS” (please find another term; this is an abominable abuse of the English language :-)) feeling that the surface had barely been scratched. I also felt there wasn’t really enough time for the journalists and nonjournalists in the room to meet together on some kind of common intellectual ground. It just seemed like the group never got far enough into the issues so that the newspaper people could see where some folks, particular the blogger/activists in the room, were coming from, and those folks never quite understood what the newspaper folks face. If everybody left the conference wanting more, though, that’s a good thing.

I could be wrong; I’m open to alternative interpretations. Anyone care to comment?