Maybe it's not that important 

Dave's saying there's a glitch in the BloggerCon webcast arrangments. Maybe it's not that important that people like me in the provinces are hearing it live. It's an age of timeshifting after all. I'd be happy to listen to the podcasts after the fact. Plus, I might love to discuss some of the sessions in an asynchronous way afterward -- maybe on a message board where the discussion leaders (or really anybody who was there) joined in the conversation. It would be a way of extending the influence of the event.

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Oooh ooh ooh 

I just thought of a perfect way to organize the post-mortem stuff. I was planning something like this before I changed departments at work. The council does a lot of conferences, meetings and training sessions. Actually I was working more on keeping a conversation going among people who were physically at an event, but the same thing could be applied to remote participants.

You could plop each of the BloggerCon sessions into the space designed for a course in an LMS like Moodle. Provide the audio, try to get pictures and video of the sessions from any onsite participant willing to share them, and use the built-in discussion boards in Moodle to talk.

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ActiveRenderer is pretty cool 

Marc Barrot posted something on the opml-newbies list about the AR blogroll that works with the OPML editor. I went over there and got more interested in the ActiveRenderer itself, which I guess has been an add-on for Radio for quite a while.

I think I looked at the API early on in my OPML obsession and couldn't make sense of it, but it made more sense to me tonight.

Here's the car roll in ActiveRenderer with a template on my server.

You can have the template, javascript file and CSS file on your server, but it looks like you have to use their server for the guts of it.

I like way you can preview without expanding by hovering over a node.

Here's the message board feed subscription list that I output here with Grazr on Sunday. ActiveRenderer works better for that sort of thing, doesn't it, as would Optimal.

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