P2P Conference 2009: The Outcome

One thing I learned at P2P 2009 – people should check whether their camera’s battery indicator is blinking before they go to a conference, so they don’t end up with a single shot.

I could not attend all the topics, as they were spread at different places and God knows why I thought I will be able to take part in everything. Instead, the first day I went to BlogCamp and attended the first half of Web 2.0 block on the second day.

Opening lection was held by the general sponsor of the conference – Superhosting. It was a mixture of numbers, assumptions, complacence and pointless bullshit, and generally sounded like “we invented the wheel, particularly in Bulgaria”. Blah.

BlogCamp was fine. I met people I knew for some time over their blogs and it was all nice. Nikolay Bachiyski of Automattic presented WordPress 2.8, which is expected to go public in the beginning of May and will hopefully solve lots of issues, and get alot of new features. Not sure about the exact feature list yet, but hoping for the best.

Corporate blogging should be used with great caution and only if you are absolutely sure you can do it right.

There was a discussion about corporate blogging, that in my opinion was shifted by the moderators. They were trying to push their point of view instead of doing what a moderator is supposed to do. Speaking of corporate blogs, there are 3 types in Bulgaria:

- corporate blogs, that are simply used for promoting products and services;
- corporate blogs, that soon die, because noone knows what to put there;
- corporate blogs, that are actually very good;