Intriguing sessions at PlaNetwork
Stopped by PlaNetwork and ran into old friends and met some new interesting ones. Attended an interesting session called "Blogs, Blogs, Blogs!" featuring various well-known bloggers. It was especially interesting to hear about where blogging may be heading in the next 12 months.
Mena Trott of Six Apart talked about photoblogging as a future for us in the US...a future that is already there in places like Japan which have already seen a proliferation of fancier cellphones with built-in cameras that are beginning to get used just as much as texting is now being used (as detailed by Howard Rheingold in Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, the awesome book I'm currently reading). You can see the result of the live post done by Jason Shellen as he spoke to the audience at his blog.
Paul King introduced me to Reid Hoffman (we have several mutual friends in addition to Paul) -- Reid is the man most actively promoting online endeavors arround connecting people in a social/personal and business sense including sites like LinkedIn, Friendster (that theelbster wrote about recently) etc.