This seems to be where the future is compounding. All we can do from here is invite anyone (mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk) who lives in a blue community in America to join our family of hundreds of place blogs ( 1,2,3, ) concerned with connecting around the world to people who care for other people and all the open systems a networking world can sustain with or without America's opinion leading influence

Below the line- extracts of the gathering note of blogger.con that starts in Stanford on Friday. Perhaps you would like to help me insert entries on the world's most powerful nation's places of directly opposite promises :

reds : who'd rule the world with Bush	blues: who's open up a networking world
places I've never been to in America's centre and south, apparently holding one or more extreme beliefs and somehow equating these with national pride	most of the west or east coast cities I have ever been to including DC, New York, Boston, San Francisco
???	The blogging community
People who have never travelled outside America, nor have any access to media providing diverse viewpoints around the world	People who travel abroad

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extract from http://www.bloggercon.org/2004/11/04#a1876
We had an election on Tuesday, the result was known on Wednesday, today's Thursday and the day after tomorrow is BloggerCon. The buzz is incredible, people are flying in from all over the world, Stanford is going to be a great place to have our blogging conference, and we've got people from all walks of life, red states and blue, podcasters and people who think it's a fad, students and teachers, doctors, lawyers, people from Wisconsin, you name it, we got it!
You may of course bring your laptop (it's a blogging conference) and there will be free Wifi, provided by Sputnik. All statements like this of course are subject to Murphy's Law, which says the Wifi probably won't work at all, but if it does, it will take two hours to get everyone online.

Thanks to Doug Kaye and Mike Lehman, we should have MP3s of all the sessions shortly after the conference. There's a chance it will be webcast. Everyone is welcome to record the conference. If you have questions, or need help, please post a comment here. We will have some kind of IRC, I'm trying to delegate that, as I will be busy everywhere but IRC the day of the conference. If you know someone who can help with this, who will be at the conference, please let me know. Thanks.

BloggerCon is an unconference. That means there is no audience, no speakers, no panels. Each session has a discussion leader. They're not all famous (a few are). They are all good at leading discussions. Everyone in the room is an equal participant. The DL is like a reporter, choosing people to speak, in an order that makes sense to her or him. There's no Q&A at the end. The whole session involves everyone. No need to go out in the hallway to have your conversation, have it in the room.

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