Le Blog Epoque

I was reading JP Rangaswami's take on the latest death of blogging, and had just commented on my take, when the idea hit me that (as I wrote on his blog comments):

I had this vision of us individual bloggers being like all those “intellectuals” (in inverted commas ) frequenting the Cafes of Paris, drinking absinthe and plotting seduction, sedition etc - Le Blog Epoque

..and watching the passing parade, making comments, trading in jokes, having the occasional spat, creating great works etc etc etc.

i.e there is this intellectual ferment going on, irrespective of the unseemly rush of the Big Blogs to ape the mainstream Media they once despised. There are a huge number of conversations, commentaries, going on between the "Small Cap Blogs".

The joy of this technology is that we don't all have to be in Paris sipping absinthe and espresso (hmmm...or is that sadness), the conversation still flows. And every so often, people meet up in person - like at Tuttle Club in London, or in this case earlier this week when I met JP, Doc Searls and Thomas Howe and James Enck at Telco 2.0 - all bloggers I have conversed with over the months an years.