After taking a short hiatus from writing for the past few weeks, I had a chance to attend Scott Kirsner’s Tech Blog event last night. It was great event that was much less of a traditional “panel” and more of an interactive discussion between a group of bloggers. It was also refreshing to attend a Boston tech event that, as Chuck Tanowitz mentions on his post, did not start with a “what is a blog” section. If you would like the real play-by-play on the event, you can check out Paul Gillin’s round up or Dan Bricklin’s podcast.
I also had a chance to talk with a few startups including Raj Bala who is currently developing BigSwerve, a very interesting concept that will aggregate the comments posted on blogs via a web crawler. When they work out some of the kinks, BigSwerve could present a whole new way to track a persons identity through their comments across multiple blogs.
In addition to Scott Kirshner, the panel included:
- Don Dodge, Director of Business Development, Microsoft Emerging Business Team
- Jimmy Guterman, Editor of Release 2.0
- Barbara Heffner, CHEN PR Partner
- Nabeel Hyatt, Conduit Labs CEO
- Bijan Sabet, Spark Capital VC
Event sponsors included Cambridge Innovation Center, CHEN PR, Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, and Schwartz Public Relations.
I look forward to the next event and will hopefully see you there.
GO RED SOX! My prediction…Sox in 6.
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This event sounds awesome! For those of us new to the Boston area, could you recommend a site or enews for finding out about things like this beforehand, or possibly even post on your blog to give us a heads up. I’d love to attend and hopefully meet some of you! – Joe
Mark’s Guide is a good source for events – I also will post some of the top ones here as well – hope to see you at the next event.
http://www.marksguide.com/