Dr. Maggie Dawn has an interesting post on the blogging panel at Greenbelt, held the end of August in Gloucestershire, UK.

“I blog, therefore I am” was a panel discussion on blogging. A couple of interesting things remain logged in my head. One was the anomaly of having semeone on the panel who’d only been blogging about 6 weeks, while the Grandfather of blogging, TallSkinnyKiwi, was sat on the back row. Now of course the Kiwi is a mellow man and didn’t take it personally. Furthermore, he is a generous and wise man, and is the first to point out that newbies have as much to say as experts. All the same it seemed a bit odd to me, and I had to resist the urge to insist that I swap places with him. Hat tip, TSK.

The other was a theme raised by two comments from the “floor”. One commenter issued the challenge that maybe bloggers are insufferably arrogant in thinking that their personal journals are of interest to the wider world. Another asked whether Samuel Pepys would have blogged, had he lived in the 21st century, and if so, would his diary then have been lost forever, given the somewhat transient nature of internet publishing.

Okay. I’ll have to go look up Samuel Pepys.
Some interesting questions raised, well worth the read for those heading into the US GodBlogCon.