Stephen Downes at northernvoice , who sort of reminded me of Jerry Garcia had a few humorous parts in his speech, but through most of it this guy was finding much deeper meaning in blogging than was too deep for me. By his start, I thought it was going to be a yawner because he started throwing out buzzwords and phrases like emergence, semantic relations and long tails. This was definitely a more philosophical and scholastic view of blogging and link relationship and for people who are new to blogging hearing this had to be thinking (or maybe it’s just me that found this speech difficult to get into): huh, what? Some examples of his commentary and coverage:

• “The big spike telling the long tail what to do that’s what happens when meaning derives from the center.”
• “People who are part of the big spike don’t want to let go.”
• On Scoble reading 1000 RSS feeds a day: “he’s got to be there thinking: god, I missed most of it”
• Using FOAF to connect people.
• Coding third party metadata. He proposes that as much as this third party metadata will be created automatically.

He closed leaving 15 minutes for questions from the audience. I looked around the room and I saw a lot of blank stares … maybe it was too close to lunch. Someone in the audience said: “I think I lost you somewhere along the way.” Yup, me too. Lunch!

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