July 30, 2005

I was late. Which is normal for me. : (

The debate has started and the main subject is whether popularity counts. "The top 100 debate" if i wanna give it a name.

I am a little scattered and frantic trying to do some last minute emailas about volunteer stuff so I will leave it up to the fabulous live-bloggers to summarize this fascinating conversation.

The debate is getting hectic. I wish the microphones had been set up in an easily accessible place. Right now Lisa is having to navigate really tightly packed tables and chairs and it isn't the easiest for her, and it's actually making the debate seem choppy because the questions aren't following a logical train.

Oddly the discussion is about how do women bloggers network and does it result in what we want. But the lay-out of the room, and the organization of the debate is an iteration of the problem. If for example the room were laid out so that more people could get access to the mics on their own without waiting for Lisa to notice their raised hands, then we would have increased autonomous cocmmunication paths and addressed the access and audible voices question even in the design of the physical space.

IMHO there are two memes: The first, how do we get the traffic/status? The second and less discused meme, is how do you address the rules. The structure of the a lists and the inbound linking "legacy" as Mary put it.