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ETech 2004

My 2nd trip to see the ETech 2004 participants this evening and thanks to Jeff Jarvis (again), met a lot of interesting people. Here's a partial list, forgive me if I have not included you:

Matt Welch, Emmanuelle Richard, Janet of OSI, Joi Ito, Loic Le Meur of Ublog, Phil Wolff of blogcount (and many other interesting projects), Ethan Zuckerman, founder of GeekCorps, Chris Hoar of textamerica (go sign up for free!), Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, Jay Rosen, David Weinberger, and many more...

Lots of remarkable conversation, a lot of questions and plenty of positive feedback. Most wanted to know more about how this blog thing has exploded the way it has with Iranians. Some of them are trying to initiate similar projects around the globe and believe there are lessons in the way things have happened in Iran.

I have talked about a couple of projects with the appropriate people and others approached me about things they may be interested in. Don't know if any of them will actually pan out and come to fruition, but it will be interesting if they do. I will certainly post all the details if anything goes past the talking stage.

Posted by Pedram at February 10, 2004 11:59 PM