Blogtalk 2.0

Hope I can make it to Blogtalk this year. I gave a talk there last year and had a fantastic time. The folks organizing Blogtalk are wonderful hosts, and the speakers chew on lots of arcane but essential angles not covered by more commercially driven events. Where else would you find this range?

* Mortensen, Torill Elvira: “Dialogue in slow motion ‘ the pleasure of writing and reading across the web”
* Lumma, Nico: “The German Blogosphere – some facts and figures”
* Schuster, Michael: “Applying Social Network Analysis to a small Weblog Community: Hubs, Power Laws, the Ego Effect and the Evolution of Social Networks”
* Azhar, Azeem/Niederhofer, Max: “Does blogging suck?”

…and Vienna is spectacular.

My presentation last year covered “Blog advertising metrics: passion and hubness.