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David Farrar has a link to Blog Hui 2006 ? Call for papers with the comment "Not sure if I will attend as $300 is more than pocket change."  It seems somewhat expensive for an essentially democratic, free to particpate activity so I had a look at their site.

Call for papers Topics covered in Papers, Posters, or Presentations could include:

• Case studies of local experiences in implementing blogging technologies (AL I think your posting of Russell with comments is worthy of its own section here :-)  )
• Blogitics - blogging as a political tool – activism online

It has been going for 2 months but nobody in the political area of the blogosphere seems to have heard of it.  Certainly there are no links to political blogs out there.

incorporated subversion is on team blog hui.  Here is a description on his website.

However, in an organisational context the generic hosted blogging services offered by ‘blog providers’ such as Blogger, Live Journal, WordPress.com and Typepad do not meet key requirements. Universities want ultimate control over the content that might be published on student (and staff) sites, businesses want commercially-in-confidence information to be blogged securely on the intranet and most corporate and institutional users want greater degrees of customisability, control and flexibility than these services are able to offer.

Does the name of his blog seem to be an oxymoron? Is this completely missing the point of blogging or what.  Even the Evil Empire Microsoft has bloggers with very clear independence from the mother ship. 

incorporated subversion is ranked around 26000 in truth laid bear.  blog hui does not even appear.  Either these academics have no idea of marketing or their intention is not to actually have a range of bloggers there. 

Conclusion:  This seems to be a small group of academics who dont seem to be in touch with the NZ blogosphere.  If you have $300 to part with for a few days off the planet, crack on.

Comments

[James]

Heh, sorry my ranking doesn't impress you too much, my technorati one is better though http://www.technorati.com/search/incsub.org%2Fblog

And this ain't that bad here: http://www.technorati.com/search/blogsavvy.net

And I do only host about 5,000 or so bloggers http://edublogs.org

But other than that I haven't the faintest idea what's going on.

So, you run an organisation, you wanna use blogs for Marketing, Knowledge Management, Internal Communication etc. Are you gonna say to your staff 'just use blogger guys, it's great'.. or are you going to looked for a system that you going to look for customisability and flexibility (you didn't emphasis those words... hmmm).

So come on, first up do your research and secondly give a bit of consideration to what you;re saying.

Oh yeh, I also ran this http://incsub.org/blogtalk which was the forerunner to Blog Hui. Yes we're not a huge group and yes the topics are much more general than the localised blogosphere but I reckon we add some serious value in our area.

[sagenz]

James - the problem i have is not understanding why you are charging $300 to attend a blogging conference. It is an inherently democratic activity and the vast bulk of nz bloggers are young impecunious students. why use the price mechanism to exclude them.

having said that it is welcome that somebody is using initiative to explore blogging.