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August 8, 2007 2:17 pm AEST — By Long Zheng

TechEd Day 1: Blogging Bloggers’ Lunch

As requested by master Frank Arrigo, here we are sitting in Bloggers’ Lunch at Microsoft TechEd Australia 2007, blogging about Bloggers’ Lunch – a discussion over lunch about Web 2.0 (and even blogging).

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The lunch, including a salad in a smoothie cup, came in a picnic-style box.

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The panel of ‘experts’ each providing their own unique perspective on the subjects.

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(Proud) Frank Arrigo, responsible for moderating the discussion.

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Philip Sim – CEO of Media Connect, Australian PR company. His blog is “Squash“.

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Darren Niemke, from Readify. Blogs at “MarkItUp“.

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Des Walsh, business coach working from home. Blogs at “deswalsh.com“.

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Jane O’Connell, products and strategy at NineMSN, mainstream media. Does not blog.

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Michael Platt, director of web application architecture at Microsoft. Blogs at “michaelplatt.net“.

Nick Hodge has an in-depth summary of what was discussed at the lunch. Including value of blogging, information overflow and management, censorship, journalism, Web 2.0 and privacy.

7 Responses

  1. Nexus says:

    It appears the muffin didn’t get anything but a cameo in your photo. No mention. Was it delicious? We will never know. How is that blogging the lunch? I expect Long Zheng to cover the entire story. :P

  2. Berno says:

    Can you please try and get 1 Frank Arrigo sticker for me?

  3. If we look at all the speakers’ photos, it becomes obvious that the sessions were an attempt to figure out whether the serious-looking people are better bloggers or the funky-looking ones. I hope that the funky-looking ones won out, otherwise I will now have to buy a tie :)

  4. Des Walsh says:

    @ Long Zheng: Great pics!

    @Arjeet: I wouldn’t expect anyone to call me funky these days, but I’m not wearing a tie. So now I’m wondering, can I be a good blogger still? :-s

  5. Ok Des. You can be a blogger for sure.

    Especially experiencing your erudition upon reading your posts on blogging at http://deswalsh.com/category/blogging/ I think that I should be asking you the question — Can I be a good blogger? :)

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