Live from BlogOrlando

Made it here to Rollins College where the 2nd annual BlogOrlando is being held. This one day event has truly grown and tripled in the number of attendees to 280 this year.

Keynote Shel Israel's discussion on how social media is being used by others around the world particularly China makes our country's obsession with blogging, bloggers, etc seem terribly superficial. His tale about the harassment of Isaac Mao, a social media technology entrepreneur and somewhat of the dissident in China, by his government makes the pursuit of social media in that country seem that much purer.