Note: All photos this page Randy Stewart, blog.stewtopia.com I am grateful to Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media for nudging me into giving my first Ignite talk at Gnomedex 2009, in the same way I'm grateful for previous circumstances nudging me to bungee-jump off a bridge near Victoria Falls or tandem...

I was trying to describe Gnomedex to my teammates at lunch and realized a few things: - most folks are not used to conferences where the conversations about the sessions (captured in twitter , pathable , irc) are as critical or influential as the main materials of the session. If you aren't online...

Gnomedex isn't over today, but I've been having some observations I'd like to indulge in.... The close of Gnomedex yesterday with Ignite Seattle's presentations segued into the morning of Gnomedex today with the Portland Ignite crew showing off their blitzkrieg of ideas. Like Seattle' initial Ignite...

Gnomedex is a very different blogging conference from others I've been to. The closest I can come to it is a mix of the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposiums , which always have a backchannel and alternate community applications going simultaneous with the speakers, Blogher , which had a...

After a sequence of extremely fortunate events, I will be able to attend Gnomedex this year for the first time ever! For those who don't know, Gnomedex is a blogger conference - a social media conference - an unconference - and a heck of a good time talking with folks who care about online community...