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If I wasnt;' the only blog, it was close."/>				<outline text="when I shut down my discussion group., all these blogs fl=ourished. what did theywrite about? what an asshole dave was. "/>				<outline text="If you let them inside you, it can tear you apart. but a point is reached where it becomes so commonplace that yu just observe that somebody's flaming you."/>				<outline text="to robert: I would have taken down the post after you got what you want. You don't respond to aggression with aggresion. that's what they want. that's what they feed on. hard earned less on is to take a deep breath, and just ignore them."/>				<outline text="when I told them I was going to resign, they said that's not what we want you to do... I told them I wasn't there to do anything for them. the only reaons to blog is becuase you have something to say"/>				<outline text="if you do it out of obligation, you're not blogging anymore. do it for your own purposes, and ifr people can't deal with it, (too bad)."/>				<outline text="I'm stopping because I want to do something new. It's been over 10 years, and I've never done anything like this for this long. clearly I;'m going to keep bloggin until the day I die, or out of free will."/>				<outline text="I stopped smoking, so I thinkn I can stop blogging. It wojuld be a very good thing to do. might be for you too. because when I stop blogging, i will still want to write. which means I have to say, write a book. which would be interesting."/>				<outline text="or comingh up with a new way of wriing on networks that isn't blogging. "/>				<outline text="or having hte electronic writing be part of writing a book."/>				<outline text="don't know what it is going to be."/>				<outline text="that's when creativity cvomes into my space."/>				<outline text="I don't feel creative... not up to my ability to be creative."/>				<outline text="so if I stop at a conveneint time, that's what's going on there."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Niall:">				<outline text="more time to do Bloggercon5? and am I the guy to do it?"/>				</outline>			<outline text="Dave:">				<outline text="what would that be? bloggercon3 was frour tracks, 16 different sessions. `13 or 14. "/>				<outline text="frank paynter has been at all four."/>				<outline text="should 5 happen? what should it be like? Niall?"/>				</outline>			<outline text="Niall:">				<outline text="blogging will get better. should we bring tobether users and toolmakers."/>				</outline>			<outline text="DAve:">				<outline text="the sessions I most worried about turned out to be absolutely fantastic."/>				</outline>			<outline text="SteveG:">				<outline text="just wanted to say I spent the morning lying in bed listening to this. I don't think you know how many were listening. sounded like it was full, on the radio."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Dave:">				<outline text="I ewanted each discussion leader to invite ten people. choose them as if they were having a panel. the room would have 10x10, plus others we would add. would be primarily a radio show."/>				<outline text="priority was to make the webcast come out great. "/>				<outline text="so we put up a wiki and opened the thing up. in the end the webcast was wonderful and came out great. thanks to limelighht networks and jake luddington. if we could produce that every time..."/>				<outline text="I swould love to try that. shrink the room down and make it like a studio."/>				<outline text="might not be bloggercon any more."/>				</outline>			<outline text="enoch choi:">				<outline text="worked well.. bunch of medical bloggers at lunch.. all worked out real well"/>				</outline>			<outline text="nick bradbury:">				<outline text="I don't have my hand up."/>				</outline>			<outline text="steven brian">				<outline text="it was nice, swince I'm not from the bay area, I thought I might not have a voice. this was a great unconference."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Corey:">				<outline text="my first bloggercon. see it differently. as a participaant."/>				<outline text="I see something missing. there is a whole groiup of bloggers that are in college, or are between 14 and 25 that are new to it and changing the blogosphere, because they're starting now."/>				<outline text="a cvool way to bring it to bloggercon 5 is to have it in multiple cities at the same time."/>				<outline text="or at universites, ahere it might not cost as much."/>				<outline text="new bloggers might add a lto more insight."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Lance:">				<outline text="this was excellent. "/>				<outline text="part of the unconference part that could be amplified, is change the arch or the desigtn of the room, the setup is too much like a conference.  there must be some way that's grouped in the round or somethijng like that."/>				</outline>			<outline text="DAve:">				<outline text="we didn'thave much time, and this was one of their standard layouts. "/>				<outline text="worked great. round of applause."/>				<outline text="credit to dan farber. centrer guy. jake, maryann, ..."/>				<outline text="first time I worked with Dan was in'86. his first review of my product sent me ovler the moon. so a big thanks."/>				</outline>			<outline text="jake:">				<outline text="the next bloggercon might be interesting for an audio or video chat component "/>				</outline>			<outline text="niall">				<outline text="discussion leaders could phone a frie3nd... frie4nde list, pick up the3 phojne, call this guy in europe..."/>				</outline>			<outline text="dave">				<outline text="clever, like that."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Ridhard Giles (from Perth)">				<outline text="you see everywhere in the backchannel/"/>				</outline>			<outline text="]dave">				<outline text="want to influence other converences. turn them into blogger cons, once they try i8t out."/>				<outline text="this conf would be best served if it wasn't necessary."/>				<outline text="i want to try in the most loving way I can that you guys (blogher?) are fighting a losing battle. You shouldl be tyring to make the room go away."/>				<outline text="Sylvia used to run gracenet and is doing a ? in berkeley tomorrow. Hight ech networking groups for women. "/>				<outline text="But I have the same problem inside corporations. thrwarted by the lunacy of the way corporations work stops tons of good ideas. so the hell with it. don't try to reform the things we'rel tryijng to get rid of."/>				</outline>			<outline text="elisa">				<outline text="i understand what you're saying. but I think it's a bit odf a miscahracterization of the battle."/>				<outline text="let's make something we'd want to attend. it's about the content, educaiotn, expore to one another,. it's not just about the battle to get women speakers."/>				</outline>			<outline text="dave:">				<outline text="I applaud and support all that. you also talked a lot about ge3ttinbh women speakers."/>				</outline>			<outline text="elisa:">				<outline text="I go to other conferences ... "/>				</outline>			<outline text="Dave:">				<outline text="boring bpelple with slide shows"/>				</outline>			<outline text="elisa'">				<outline text="want to play the rules and also change the game."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Susan;">				<outline text="this has been a really good community experience."/>				<outline text="bklogher and bloggercon evolve into a meeting that perpetuates thoughout the year. stresses the uncommercial nature, and the power,. "/>				<outline text="this is about crystalizing fcommunity that's meetingup."/>				</outline>			<outline text="davbe">				<outline text="link to the bloggercon.org. there's a mail list."/>				</outline>			<outline text="mike">				<outline text="what'a up with the microphones.?"/>				<outline text="I disagree with you on the blogher stuff."/>				<outline text="I understnand your point, but I think i's really neede d right now."/>				</outline>			<outline text="andy">				<outline text="can we drop the term conference?"/>				</outline>			<outline text="dave">				<outline text="an other word we can't use?"/>				</outline>			<outline text="rove3rt:">				<outline text="comment on this versus others."/>				<outline text="this seemed more like bloggercon 2 bc3 seemed big and more intense. Il ike the way this felt. a big difference is that there was much more of you in this. you lurked in the others. you were here and present at this one. changed this. overall better. kind of gave a balance because this is your vision."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Lisa Williams:">				<outline text="I think this has been the most unconference of all the bloggercvons. more true to that idea. more others need to be responsible for the planning and success."/>				<outline text="see the lost art of prepared remarks. when they started out there were these great preapred remarks at lecture series athat went on for years and years. Henry James' varieties of rleigiouis experienc ecame from that. "/>				<outline text="need more responsibility to the edges of things... also like to see, once a year, somebody take the risk of saying something big.. something really fundamental. "/>				</outline>			<outline text="Dave:">				<outline text="hard to do that. sits idle and then becomes a fire drill."/>				<outline text="\peple lead busy lives. it's not a priority until it's right on them."/>				<outline text="you need to change something more fundamental."/>				</outline>			<outline text="done."/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>