June 7, 2005

Return to BlogNashville

I have - finally - gotten around to downloading and editing and posting a selection of photos from the BlogNashville conference. [Hey ... it was only a month ago!]. They're all posted in the extended-entry portion of this post. All images are approximately double in size if if right-clicked for downloading to your PC available, and hi-res versions are available if you need one.

Friday afternoon at BlogNashville, a group of bloggers met to discuss ways to help people living under repressive regimes blog safely via anonymity. The discussion was held, symbolically appropriately, at the Nashville office of The Freedom Forum.

Visible faces include, from the right, B.L. Ochman, Tom Biro, Matt Sheffield, Mark Glaser of Online Journalism Review, Hossein Derakshan, and Rebecca McKinnon.

From the same session:

Nashville Scene writer and WKRN-TV blogger Brittney Gilbert.

Also:

Hossein Derakhshan, a/k/a "Hoder," of Editor: Myself

Tom Biro of The Media Drop.

Rebecca McKinnon of the Global Voices project and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

Before the start of the Friday night BlogNashville panel discussion of the relationship between blogging and journalism, Glenn Reynolds, right, did a video interview of J.D. Lasica about Lasica's Nikon digital camera.

You can see that video here.

Here are a couple of shots from that Friday night panel discussion:

Left to right: The moderator is Dr. Sybril Bennett, director of the New Century Journalism program. At the table is, left to right, Mike Cutler, news director for Nashville's NewsChannel 5 Network; Nashville Scene editor Liz Murray Garrigan, and myself.

Seated at the second table were, left to right, J.D. Lasica, Glenn Reynolds and Rocky Mountain News columnist Linda Seebach.

The crowd gathers Saturday morning before the start of the all-day BlogNashville activities...

And here's Glenn Reynolds kicking things off. To his left, your right, is Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, a co-host of the BlogNashville conference.

Later that day...

Glenn Reynolds, right, and Knoxville News Sentinel reporter and blogger Michael Silence.

Here's another view of the same two Knoxville bloggers:

Heh.

Here's Ed Cone speaking at a session on military blogs:

Here's Donald Sensing from the same session:

Here's Dave Winer leading the infamous final session titled A Respectful Disagreement:

Here is part of the crowd in the Vince Gill Room for that same session, including Rebecca McKinnon, LaShawn Barber (in red) and Doug Petch (on couch, with laptop).

The Respectful Disagreement session will go down in history as John Jay Hooker's launchpad into the blogosphere.

From the same session, here's Glenn Reynolds making a point to Dave Winer:

Reynolds left the room minutes later after Winer lost his cool.

And, finally, from the same session, comes this shot of Matt Sheffield as he respectfully disagrees with Dave Winer, as seen both through my camera lens and the lens of the documentary film crew that came to BlogNashville to film for documentary:BLOG, a documentary about blogging.

That's the coolest shot I took all weekend.