As Lift enters the email period - where our job basically consists of sending messages to arrange the final details, promote the conference, and refine presentation topics - I have a tradition which consists in looking at past editions speeches again. And as I watched Robin Hunicke talk about The Modern Age of Gaming (in what became Lift's third most popular talk online) I found this funny little moment where the one and only Robert S. is writing a post and gets caught on camera. Slightly disturbed by the sudden incursion, he closes his browser with one eye and promptly turns his attention back on the presentation as 700 pairs of eyes see him appear on the screen above the stage. Watch a blogger caught blogging!

Back in the nineties, during the darkest moments of the Milosevic regime, when every freedom of expression was suffocated by blaring nationalist propaganda, the dissident founders of the legendary B92 radio, driven to bold desperation, decided that their line of work would have to become "hardcore nonsense."

So, where do I blog? I'm live-blogging on my blog Climb to the Stars. I also posted a "pre-transcript" of my Open Stage talk (where's the video, btw? did I misunderstand that we were being filmed?). But should I have posted it here? I hesitated.

What are your thoughts on cross-posting?

I have to say I'm already struggling about whether to post certain things on my blog or on the Going Solo blog blog.

I want to write a few words about my workshop yesterday (it went well despite the small number of laptops present for a practical "learn to actually blog" thing), and the one I attended. What's the best place to blog about this? I like to collect all I write on CTTS, so I have a tendancy to want to cross-post if I blog elsewhere.

Anybody else facing the same problems? How do you deal with this?

Hi Laurent et al

Just to clarify as I tap away here in the Salle.

1. Did you really mean us to tag our posts lift08 lift or just lift08?
2. Where will our blog posts from our own blogs aggregate? Or do you want us to post links on the community blog separately.

An answer from anyone would be great, as I am sure Laurent is rawther busy right now.

Cheese

Libby

This is something I’ve wanted to do for some time now, and I’m happy to kick it off at LIFT: provide a crash-course in blogging for non-bloggers.

I know many people attending LIFT are already seasoned bloggers like myself. Most people reading this post probably are. I wanted to offer something to those who are not so immersed in the web as us.

So, basically, this is a three-hour workshop to open a blog (from scratch, I plan to use Wordpress.com), twiddle the basic settings, learn how to publish, and talk about blogging. I’m always amazed that though the media now sing “blog, blog, blog” in every publication, many people haven’t really had a chance to get near one and see how technically easy publication is.

So, if you know anybody who is going to LIFT and isn’t (yet) a blogger… send them to my workshop ;-)

Quoting from the workshop description, here’s the stuff it’ll cover:

First, on the “blogging technique” side:

• opening your blog
• discovering the various options and settings offered by the blogging tool
• how to publish a post or a page
• linking to blog posts or websites
• organizing one’s content with tags and categories
• managing comments
• choosing a design for your blog and managing sidebar content

Second, on the “blogging culture” side, we might talk about:

• blogs vs. “normal websites”
• different uses of blogs (personal, corporate…)
• dealing with openness and conversation in a public space (negative comments…)
• blogging etiquette and ethics
• reading other people and how to promote one’s blog
• other “Web 2.0” tools to use in relation with your blog