Live blogging from webcom today

By Heri May 10th 2007 in Events

Webcom 2007, a conference about blogging, open source tools, viral marketing, wikis, pretty much about web2.0 in fact, has started this morning.

As I write this, Sylvain Carle, Eric Baillargeon, Marc Snyder and Bruno Boutot are updating the blog, with notes, photos, and videos.

The experience is interesting, from a social and marketing perspective. Bloggers talking and blogging about blogging. I am torn between considering this as innovation or if the bloggers are in a bubble (litteraly, not in reference to the .com crash). But what do you know, I am not attending the conference and can’t really give my opinion about it.

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Alex Williams May 17, 2007

Hi Heri,

You seem to be a great aggregator of Montreal tech events and news. I’ll be adding your feed to my news reader.

Thanks!

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Heri May 19, 2007

thanks to you alex. but you should come to democamps and barcmaps as well. rococo is starting now.

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