Opening Discussion

The opening discussion is about how your blogs are changing your world.

They started off with a rep from Windows Live Spaces, who then introduced the Be Jane chicks. Totally unimpressive. They've been walking around in matching outfits. And not just shit they made themselves on CafePress. Do you believe that these two are home improvement experts? I don't. They've got their whole shpiel down pat. Clearly a rehearsed presentation. The room got pretty loud. Folks were not paying them much attention. The second they stepped off the stage, room quieted right back down.

The BlogHer conference application posed this question about how blogs are changing your world, so we all had to answer it. Folks with particularly good answers are getting up on stage and talking about how blogging has changed their world. We've got Hurricane Katrina relief, mommyblogging *cough*, web design/internet consulting business startups, a chef/food blogger who got involved in the immigrant protests, a feminist single mom, and cute little old lady blogger Millie Garfield (Steve's mom).

I probably could have slept in. The intention was good, but it's a hard conversation to have in a room full of 600 people.

From this session comes the Quote of the Day, courtesy of Elisa Camahort: "Blogging is like the gateway drug for technology." Amen, sista!