Well I’m now back home and exhausted after an intense few days at the ALT-C conference, which has been seen us ‘sailing the high seas’ of social software (as opposed to ‘drowning in a sea of…’ – theme of an earlier post ;-)
As anticipated, there was something of a blog-hole effect; bloggers bloggers everywhere, blogging about blogging about blogging, as evidenced by posts from Steve Wheeler, James Clay, Josie Fraser and Haydn Blackey – although extra credit must go to David Bryson who’s put together a fantastic slideshow of images of bloggers blogging during the conference!
On Wednesday afternoon Frances Bell, Josie Fraser, Simon Hardaker and myself spent a couple of hours doing the web-based follow-up (blogging, wiki-ing, Flickring and video editing) from our Web 2.0 Slam workshop which quite a few people have blogged – Josie, Graham Attwell, Kathy Trinder, Steve Wheeler, Emma Duke-Williams…
After a couple of hours we were joined by some of our fellow bloggers, and had a fine time chatting, blogging, Flickring, Facebooking etc. and I loved the fact that we were sat next to one another physically while communicating and linking to one another over a variety of online social platforms… the ever Flickr-fficent (oops – new word!) James Clay touched on this in his post, finding that blogging has enhanced verbal discussion rather than replacing it and I’m inclined to agree…
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