BlogWalk 1.0: aftermath

I'm not quite recovered yet from the overwhelming experience of meeting so many new people and having very intense discussions with them about weblogs and KM at BlogWalk. It was really nice to meet bloggers in the flesh and being able to interact with them more than it would be possible through blogging or other forms of mediated communication. I was the youngest participant (I knew I would be beforehand) and therefore I was not quite sure whether I was able to contribute much to the discussions going around. It turned out that I'm more 'knowledgeable' than I thought I was. Not that I've got much practical experience in the workingfield, but my education at least brought me a vision about organisations and how they should work. Yesterday for me was very much about listening to people with far more experience than me, asking them questions about their vision and comparing that with my own ideas.

Meeting with Aldo de Moor, a future blogger :-), was very interesting to me because he's more involved whith Habermas' theory in regard to collaborative working on the internet. He will try to introduce me to someone at his university (I've forgotten the name) who is very knowledgeable on Habermas. Aldo told me that this person is looking for someone who would take up a PhD position in case his request for funding is accepted. A year ago I already had in mind to go on in the scientific world, but during the year I gave up hope since there is so little money available for research nowadays (it seems to me that universities have to fund all research with external money). Maybe a glimpse of light in the darkness of not knowing where I will be after I've finished my masters (though I've little hope of success). The thing that helped me most was that Aldo thought my masterthesis was very interesting and that was just the thing I needed to hear. To me it was a very succesfull meeting.

If you want to read more about BlogWalk, surf to the Topic Exchange. There are pictures around too at Andy's and Ton's.

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