Web 2.0 Panel

I've got a lot to say about the Web 2.0 conference that I've been attending this week in San Francisco. But before I take time to write a longer post, I've just got to clarify one thing I said in my panel today.

During the course of talking about weblogging and how communication has evolved, I made a comment that (as usual) didn't come out as I planned. Instead, I sounded like I said using LiveJournal is like smoking pot. What I meant to say was a summary of what Andre Torrez said on his weblog the other day:

Webloggers of 1999 don't equal bloggers in 2005. I really need to accept it and move on. I recently found out that a few people had migrated to LiveJournal (yes, LiveJournal. Really!) because they could set controls on who could read and have more freedom to write about things they didn't want etched in Google for eternity.

I was kind of shocked when saw the names of people who were on it. It's like when you're wandering around the party thinking people had gone home and then you find them all in the back-room smoking pot and giggling at a television that isn't even on.

The way we blog and communicate is changing and our own online practices are changing. The idea that there is still a conversation going on -- it's just morphing into something different -- is something worth talking about.

Anyway, just a clarification. More to come later.