David Emery OnlineSo Many Geeks! Run for your lives!
8 June 2005
Yesterday evening I went to the London Geek Dinner and it was pretty good fun. The food was nice enough, and the company was pretty good too.
It was quite interesting though, as a fair few people were talking about blogging in a business sense, and about what the “next big thing in blogging” will be – failing to see that blogging was simply the last big thing, and that the next big thing will probably either be something utterly unrelated, or something that’s related only by lots of people with blogs being the first ones to notice it.
Blogging as an innovation is done.
Get over it, and start thinking about something else.
Also amusing was the worship of Scoble – I got a feeling that their was a significant amount of people there simply to try and meet him, which is a bit odd really. The guy seems nice enough, but a bit gung-ho for my liking – I think that’s probably a product of him being American, and also being an evangelist for Microsoft (Quick note: In his after dinner speech, he did indeed say: “We [Microsoft] stole everything from Apple” – his bosses are going to love that…).
Also, someone bought me a drink on the premise that I go and look at his site. I’m guessing he though I was “somebody”. I am, however, not complaining and if people would like to buy me drinks I will quite happily go to their website in return; it is an arrangement I am quite happy with.