Live From LA

Well, I am still on the left coast for the next few hours at least. I'm comfortably working from the offices of Userplane (great gang here). I've been in LA for about 24 hours now, hot off the tail of Blogger Con III.

The conference was quite interesting, to say the least. There were a great number of new faces and more importantly, a new diversity to the crowd. Is it sign of the times that there were a large number of journalists present? Is Big Media finally coming over to the dark side?

Of all the things I want to know about bloggin, probably what ranks near the top of the list is what will happen to blogging when it moves past the 4 million mark and on to the 10 million mark? What about the 25 million mark? Is it still the same nascent little community or has it fundamentally shifted to something bigger (and is that bigger thing different).

I recall having a conversation with some people at BloggerCon and I noted that this phenomena is not new and it's also one that's been solved in different ways. Humans have this uncany ability to generate content (from waste to concepts and everything in between). The process has always been the same. We gorge and gorge until we can't handle anymore. Then we "diet" as much as possible. We're gorging on information now to the point of . Soon we'll be looking for diets that help to compact that down for us.

What's the Blogger's Diet look like? How much water can we drink?