Louis was a little shy at first and wanted to push forward one of the people he was chatting to.  But when I assured him he could do it in French too he seemed placated ;-)

Again, apologies for not getting details straight, like surname, but I can work out that he's saying McGill University in Montreal.  Anyone know Louis and able to supply a full name?

I met Georg & Eszter in the foyer on Wednesday morning  and asked them about their experience of attending the conference this year.   

Sorry my Hungarian friends, I didn't get your surnames and I can't make out clearly enough from the video where it is that you work, but I trust some eagle-eyed commenters will be able to fill in these blanks.

I  managed to get a few words out of David Weinberger just after his barnstorming keynote this morning.  However, my compassion kicked in as I saw he really had given his all and, as he said, the adrenaline was fading fast. 

So for those of you who aren't here, this is the hugely condensed version.

David Weinberger, in his usual fashion, this morning stirred up an audience of information professionals by telling them the "old ways are dying, if not already dead".

Nervous laughter echoed around the room. But, in between the laughter, you could almost hear some deep thinking taking place. Engage with the New World or seek early retirement.

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Packt Publishing is donating copies of its new book RSS and Atom: Understanding and Implementing Content Feeds and Syndication to three lucky delegates attending the Content Syndication session

I am 'Furling' links relating to Monitoring and Mining the Blogosphere. If you're interested, pop this into your aggregator (make sure you grab the entire link):

http://www.furl.net/members/tebbo/rss.xml?topic=mining+blogosphere

If you have good links you'd like me to add, please comment and I'll add them.

Look forward to seeing you at the end of the month.

What's this? It's a jar for collecting questions.

If you'd like your own question answered in the "monitoring and mining the blogosphere" forum, please drop it into the jar now.

Of course, you will have to do it metaphorically, by commenting on this post.

PS (23rd November) Probably a good idea to provide your name and affiliation with your question. Wouldn't want competitors to be asking awkward questions of each other. Thanks. [ For the record, there was a question but when I wrote to the author, the email bounced. So I deleted the question. ]

This year we have a record number of panel debates taking place in the conference so get your thinking caps on now for questions!

We've selected some high profile names and organisations to take part in the panel sessions, some of who you dont get to see that often in Europe.  For those of you who would rather remain anonymous why dont you email me(lorna.candy@vnuexhibitions.co.uk ) in advance with your questions?   Alternatively we'll have a question box on the conference registration desk you can use to add your question to.

To remind you we have: a desktop search panel session on Tuesday 29 November; a monitoring and mining the blogosphere panel on Wednesday 30 November and an enterprise search question time on Thursday 1 December.

Hi all.
My name is Marc Estève, and I will be speaking about the progress of international communities inside EDF, the french electricity company. I have been in charge for the past 3 years of developping the collaborative platform which serves as a virtual support for the exchanges inside these communities.

We are currently introducing real time options (webconference, chat, ...) in our plateform which used to have only asynchronus capabilities (forums, content management, directories ...). I'm wondering how this will impact the way our people work, and am eager to hear from anybody who has an experience in that field applied to large organizations. See you all in London very soon !! Marc.

Peter Scott here. I will be moderating the session entitled Content syndication - supply & demand on Wednesday 30 November, 14.00-15.30. I will be explaining how to keep up with the latest developments in content syndication with RSS, making reference to my RSS Compendium. My fellow panelists are Philippe Borremans from IBM, and Fergus Burns from Nooked.