My 10 Most Favorite Blog World Expo Collections on Flickr
September 26, 2008
Blog World celebs John Chow and Tim Ferriss (Photo by Shashi Bellamkonda)
Richard Avedon once said: “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
Truth or not – the good news is: Hundreds of little Avedons were among the attendees of this year’s Blog World Expo. Everybody took pictures of everything and everybody else (especially of the ‘celebs’). Since we live in the age of photo sharing, I don’t have to rely on my own snapshots anymore. As of now, 4587 photos related to the BWE have been posted on Flickr. Wow – and all these pics were taken in 3 days (if you include Friday with all the BWE partner programs)!
Since I was curious what kind of pictures my fellow bloggers were taking, I made the effort to browse through Flickr and find the accounts which include a great variety of this year’s new media and blogging conference in Las Vegas.
These are my 10 most favorite Blog World Expo photo collections on Flickr:
Blog Word Expo Recap: Great sessions at the B5 Blogger Summit
September 25, 2008
Robert Scoble, Hugh McLeod and Stowe Boyd during the B5 Advisory Board Q&A
One day before the official Blog Word Expo started, B5 Media – one of the largest blog networks in the world – was running a training day for their bloggers, titled B5 Blogger Summit, that was opened up to any BWE registrants that wanted to attend. Needless to say that I did not want to miss this great opportunity to get blogging tips from the pros and get to know the people behind this rapidly expanding blog network in person.
In the hindsight I have to say that it was totally worth to take this additional day off and travel to Las Vegas already on Thursday night in order to be fresh and ready for the first session on Friday at 9 AM. Here’s why:
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