Blogging Roller

The RTP Bloggers lunch today was enjoyable and pretty thought provoking. Three new faces appeared at the table: Frank Boosman, Jay Thrash, and a reporter named Karen Mann from the Raleigh News and Observer. As Bruce Loebrich said (and see Bruce's post for full list of the attendees), the reporter kept us focused on blogging. So we discussed questions like: where is blogging going in the next five years, how will blogging effect the mainstream media (see Katy Loebrich's story on that topic), how do you reconcile bloglife with worklife, can a newspaper run successful weblog, and what is the difference between blogging and journalism.

I'm not going to try to recount all of the conversations because I did not hear them all (and I'm too lazy). As Rafe Colburn observed, our group is getting a sort of large and unweildy. I'm glad Andy Oliver was at the other end of the table because I think he spent the whole time raggin' on Roller ;-)

I was fortunate to sit across from the new guys, Jay Thrash and Frank Boosman. Frank was eager to answer the reporters questions about the future of blogging. Frank believes that blogging, or more accurately moblogging, will become pervasive. Blog entries will be shorter, often just pictures, or video snippets. Sony Blogman, right Joi? Frank also believes that, within five years, a talented author will blog some major event and the whole world will tune in... think Into Thin Air except written real-time by a moblogger. I'm not sure if those ideas are all Frank's or not, but I'm subscribing to Frank for more stuff like that. I'll also be watching Jay's brand new blog, with a name like javahead.org how can he go wrong?