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July 30, 2005

My computer has been given the silent treatment by the techmarkets network, which is why there hasn't been too much from me, but you know what? I was also totally overwhelmed.

It's down to the take away which is turning into a slightly evangelical feel-good session. Which is okay I think every "first-time" event deserves its evangels.

And if I weren't writing this I would be listening to Mary Hodder make a call for a group or list of womens with their expertise.

I wanted to make a self-prop. I was interviewed by the SF chronicle, and they made me soundlike a montrealaise littlest hobo of sorts. cool. But I am not just a student. I am mostly a web developer.

There is alot of discussion of being outside ones comfort zone and doing stuff that pushes the boundaries of their normal zone of interest or experience and I find it interesting, because I am not certain that I have ever been inside the bounds of normal.

I am not sure yet about the idea of what normal means in the blogosphere. As someone from the mommy-blogging crew stands up to represent. I am reminded that everyones voice here is unique and pretty different even if it is just a difference of degrees.

I feel like my thread that is, the one question I seem to come back to; is why is a person or a blogs relation to the "normal" the point of reference.

Now there is an idea to smartmob the male-dominated conferences. I think I should end on that. I am feeling scattered an exhausted.


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Comments

I'm not surprised you're feeling exhausted - there's a lot of that going around. But it's a good kind of exhaustion, don't you think?

Thank you for all your support and the work you did for BlogHer. It was a wonderful experience for us attendees!

Posted by: Donna at July 30, 2005 11:47 PM

thanks for the snark & surreal manic adventure, mir.

Posted by: Melissa Gira at July 31, 2005 3:55 PM

It was great to meet you and thank you for all the work organizing the live blogging.

Techmarket did the same thing to me. I ended up having fun with it!
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/07/expect_more_lat.html

Posted by: Beth at July 31, 2005 8:47 PM

More thanks go to you all. It was a great experience to be at the conference but I am extra glad I got to meet such nice live-bloggers...

Oh and I have come to the conclusion that I have been a little pms-ey since approximately 9:00pm sat night, (I think it kicked off when the singers at teh resto launched into cabaret). So I may have been a little high on the snark. Next time we meet I will be a hella more positive individual

cheers,

Posted by: mir at August 1, 2005 4:26 AM