Diary of an up and coming sociopath

After work today, Nikki and I went to Blogging Demystified at the Apple Store (technically, we went to Lloyds for some food first, but that’s peripheral to the story. I don’t know why I even brought it up.) where some of London’s most famous bloggers were giving talks on blogging to other people who may have blogs. There wasn’t a huge number of people there but I suspect the nature of it alone means it’ll be blogged more than most things. Let’s face it, it’s the nerdiest thing I’ve attended in quite a while. Since that comic convention a few days back, in fact. At one point it was asked who used IRC and when only like 6 people admit to it even in that kind of company, you know you’re a bigger nerd than most.

The culprits we saw giving a speech were all london-based and generally the kind of thing you read when you’re a tech-savvy urbanite like what Nikki and I am:

Annie Mole of the London Underground Blog who gave a general overview of blogging and tried to explain why people do it, and measured that against why they /should/ do  it and the like.

Tom Reynolds of Random acts of Reality who is a very hateful nerd I suspect I’d probably get on with (Original blog title: “Why I hate people” - plus he was wearing a Warren Ellis hoodie.) who gave us a speech on blogging as identity.

Finally, the three women from Inky Circus, which I’d never heard of before but will definitely check out now, who explained where their site came from and what they like about it.

We also appeared to spot Relly’s friend Talia in the crowd. This is what you call an example of the blogosphere collapsing in on itself. She once mistook my friend for me when they coincidentally met at Uni, because we both linked to Relly’s blog, as I recall.

I hope the word blog has, by now, lost all meaning to you.

In other news, I appear to be developing a different, less intense cold. What the hell’s up with that?