Well, I'm going to be sitting all day in a meeting of considerable interest. There are about 15 of us here, and I brought my computer along on the off-chance that I might get connected. Silly me. Of course I'd be connected. It is a room full of bloggers! It is a Symposium by the Institute for Future of the Book. Here is their statement of purpose:
Over the past several months, The Institute for the Future of the Book has been hatching a new project to encourage academics with expert knowledge and a distinctive voice to use blogs and other internet-based vehicles to step beyond the boundaries of the academy to reach out to a broader public audience. The genesis of the project was a series of conversations with Juan Cole, whose Informed Comment blog we all consult daily to find out what's really happening in Iraq. This site serves as a planning stage for a meeting on November 11th in Los Angeles where the conversation will continue in a slightly wider circle.
They invited me along, and it is being held in the neighbourhood (Annenberg Center for Communication...yes, I found it this time)..it looked interesting, so why not go? So I am here. I'll tell you more as time permits. Who is here? Manan Ahmed, Christine Boese, Danah Boyd, John Seely Brown, Brian Carroll, Juan Cole, Jenny DeMonte, Brian Drolet (link, link), Justin Hall, John Holbo, Clifford Johnson, John Mohr, PZ Myers, Larry Pryor, Karen G. Schneider, Bob Stein, Ben Vershbow. [Update: Virginia Kuhn joined us later in the day.] I'll link these names to their blogs later. [Update: done] [Update: John Seely Brown could not make it.] Everybody is typing, so I expect that there are blogs all over with similar posts to this going up right now! This is such fun. -cvj (P.S. I've never seen so many mac powerbooks on one table.....)
