First breakout session, about blogging in general.

The panelists are talking about who blogs and why. Pretty interesting points. One thing the bloggers talked about was comments policies and Mano Singham posed an interesting question, “If you have a comments policy, aren’t you liable for the comments you let through. Doesn’t it look like you’re condoning those comments?”

Another audience member said that a blog that his friend runs changed the icon for anonymous posts to the cowardly lion from The Wizard of Oz.

Lastly, an audience member asks what the macro impact of blogging is: is it an additive or replacement activity? Some panelists think it’s an additive activity. I disagree, at least in the way that I use this blog. There are some things I record here so that I don’t have to explain them a second time. Other times I use it to announce things that I would like to announce once and reach my subscribers (most of whom are friends of mine) all at the same time.

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