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I’ve been to 2 events over the past few weeks – both were very different.

1st up was the Online Information event in London – attendees were from major industries, with some very large scale publishers on show.

The 2 panels I participated on were most interesting – “Content syndication – supply and demand” and “Monitoring and mining the blogosphere”

The Content Syndication – supply and demand panel was made up of Peter Scott, RSS Compendium, Philippe Borremans, IBM and I.We did our best to demonstrate great examples of content syndication, and where RSS is used today. I’ve had email dialogue with Peter and Philippe previously, and it was a pleasure to meet in person.

The “Monitoring and mining the blogosphere” panel was made up David Tebbutt (Journalist supremo), Bradley Horowitz (Yahoo), Loic Le Meur (SixApart), Salim Ismail (PubSub) and I.

David was a graceful moderator, and we had a great dialogue with the audience – questions ranges from “flickr model”, “content use/re-use”, dark web, structured blogging, Nokia blogging strategy, 90million + blogs, RSS readers (and the problems with them), Attention, etc – it was great.

Thanks to Adriana for organizing a great track on WIKIS, BLOGS AND RSS, and to Lorna for the logistics.

Back to base for a few days, and then I was off to LesBlogs. This event has been made famous for other reasons – it was great event with a great mix of countries and knowledge. ( I also got to meet at least 5 other Irish bloggers – which was cool). I also managed to make the tail end of a dinner, where I had the pleasure of meeting and drinking with 642.entry”>MaryAm (the other half of Scobleizer) , Tebbo and Dennis

I was on the RSS panel, with Scott Rafer, Wireless Inc, Dana VanDen Heuvel, Pheedo, Steve Olechowski, COO & Co-Founder,FeedBurner, and Greg Reinacker, NewsGator Technologies.

Elizabeth did a great job keeping the questions coming from the audience. Conversation ranged from RSS monetization, Consumer use of RSS, RSS Reading (again), RSS Metrics, RSS tracking (copyright), Content use/re-use, structured blogging, etc. Marc made sure we were on our toes.

Thanks to Loic, Elizabeth and Guillaume and team for the excellent organization.

No more events for 2005 – Unfortunatly I won’t make Syndicate – i’m off on a short family vacation with family before the Xmas panic sets in

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