On Thursday, I’m part of a panel discussing “The Effects of Blogs on Publishing“. I’m looking forward to joining Scott Rosenberg of Salon and Matt May, of the W3C, among other things. My bio mentions this blog… which is probably not why Lauren Wood (an actual nuclear physicist at one point, though clearly not practicing) agreed to have me as a member of the panel.
Actually, as I’m not a regular on the conference circuit, I found the process interesting. I followed a link on ongoing from Tim Bray inviting interested parties to get in touch with Lauren. I was intrigued, and started the process.The resulting email exchange quickly led to my participation, which I think will be worthwhile. I haven’t spoken to or met with any of the other participants, although I’ve listened to Scott once over at Berkeley on some blog panel at the journalism school.
I cannot find the actual invitation link on Bray’s site right now, despite some quick Googling with site:tbray.org as a qualifier. Mild irony, since I’m enjoying On Search, the irregular series. Of course, my blog lacks site search, too!