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Reflecting on BlogWalk 3.0
Driving back from Austria gives me the opportunity to do a little bit of writing in the car. I haven't had the chance to reflect on BlogWalk yet. Now's a good time to do that, before everything slides to the back of my head. I've been in the fortunate position to attend all BlogWalk meetings held sofar. That brings me in a position were I can compare the different meetings. Let me first say that BlogWalk 3 has been a wonderful meeting, a good opportunity to get to know people who also would attend BlogTalk beforehand. The downside of the meeting was that the group was too large, which led to not knowing everyones name by the end of the day (what did happen in the first two meetings). Nevertheless I had some really good conversations during the day. I was able to talk about my masterthesis (including Habermas) and it helped me in preparing for my presentation at BlogTalk, since I had to translate everything I've been writing and talking about into English within a week. Thanks to everybody who was willing to listen to me!
There is only one conversation that I can remember at the moment, with Gabriela and Therese. Many people I talked to in the past few days are so amazed with the open atmosphere among the bloggers. The bloggers meeting up at BlogWalk and BlogTalk all seem to have this open attitude towards eachother. What I questioned during the conversation with Gabriela and Therese was whether the bloggers that meet eachother in meetings such as BlogWalk have this positive voice, because that is the only way you can build networks and be sociable. That would mean that blogging in a negative voice doesn't result in the forming of networks through blogging. I'm not sure whether this is true, but it would be an interesting topic to dive into. Surely there must have been done research already in psychology and sociology regarding the way people bond together and the language that is used in this bonding.
In the end I've come to realize how good and deep the conversations were at the first BlogWalk meeting. It was a smaller group of people, the topic was more focused, maybe that ads up to the depth of the discussions. All in all I've enjoyed every meeting sofar. I wonder when I will join another BW meeting. Hope it will be soon!
