My road to Doc

I was reading Microsoft's blogger-in-chief Robert Scoble on a conference on blogging Les Blogs 2.0 that took place earlier in the week in Paris. Scoble didn't go into any detail about it. Looking at the Les Blogs site, I noticed, however, that Adriana Lukas-Cronin had been billed to speak. Adriana works for the Big Blog Company in London. I had come across the company's site some months ago, had R.S.S.-bookmarked it - 'livemarked' it, should perhaps be the term - and had noticed that Adriana and I had been to the same college. I thought that I might contact her some time, given that she is a professional blogger and might not be averse to giving a leg-up to an older Balliol person struggling to get into the blogosphere. College blood runs quite thick, if you have been to an Oxbridge college. I haven't contacted her but may well do. I'm still too much of a baby blogger, I feel.

Anyway, I went to see whether Adriana had posted something on the conference. I couldn't find anything but came across some rapidly scribbled notes that she had written during, and on, some of the sessions in the first Les Blogs conference (Was it called Les Blogs 1.0, I wonder.). Her notes I found fascinating, particularly those taken during a talk given by one Doc Searls.

Adriana concluded:

This was the best session and that’s saying a lot ... Doc’s perspective is the one that is of most interest to me, as it tries to include blogs in a wider understanding of communication and interaction between human beings.

Doc Searls is, I quickly learnt, a well known computer industry analyst, a champion of open-source programming, and lives in San Francisco. Adriana's notes led me to look at some of his writing online. It really is interesting, I think. Here is an example.

My road to Doc.

Speaking of whom, I completely forgot yesterday afternoon that I had an appointment with my G.P.  Damn!
 

Comments

[Andrew]

Hi Conor,

Just came across this Scoble in context of his criticising MS for collaborating with the Chinese gov't in censoring MSN Spaces bloggers. Pretty cool though a more recent post seems to indicate that he is moving towards keeping his mouth shut about this from now on. Anyhow, the genie is out of the bottle, probably largely thanks to him, and that's good. I would stand behind MSN Spaces right to censor anyone they want to for any reason at all, their TOS even basically says they reserve the right to shut anyone down for any reason. The more important thing is that it is publicised what scumbags they are. I know this comment has nothing to do with your post, but thought this was worthy of mention anyhow.

-Andrew

[Adriana]

Hi Conor! For some reason I came across your post only now after 8 months... the vagaries of Technorati watch. So how about that contact? :-) Nice to see another Balliol person in the blogosphere. You seem to be doing pretty well here.