Putting the Con into Bloggercon
by Duncan
August 13, 2003
All hell broke lose, and the blog-vendor lobby who patronise the people who in their dot.com terms, “provide the content” for their “blogosphere” (on which they are now claiming mining rights), got a real sharp repost. One minute these tools guys extol the grassroots as their validation for being important, and the next minute, they see them as a worm farm, to be harvested at leisure. Needless to say, bloggers weren’t buying into this power relationship: