Moblogging from blogcamp.in

I managed to gate crash into the blogcamp event (billed as India’s  biggest blog unconference)  happening in Tidel Park here thanks to my Cognizant Identity Card (we have an office in Tidel). This is an unconference (you can look that up on Google).  I tried signing up through the wiki but found the process initimidating because it was marked  soldout and the extra attendees list was running into a few hundred. One of my colleagues Sriram (http://readsriram.blogspot.com) is part of the organizing team.  Happy to see the stars of the Indian Blogosphere like Kiruba (got to shake hands with him thanks to Sriram), Dina Mehta and others. When I entered the venue, someone Nandhu Sundaram from Deccan Chronicle on how blogging is an important media phenomenon. He was also comparing it with Citizen Journalism which predates Blogging. As a general observation, I found many people not listening (Sriram says people are tired being the 2nd day and all). I took that back. In all other sessions people seem to be listening intently. So my observation can be dismissed as an anomaly.  The age group is clearly in the 20s and early 30s making me feel very old ( I spotted a couple of grey haired men, but that’s about it). Ok, i am not that old, but still. We are waiting for the webcast with Scoble. First time, we almost got started, but thanks to technical glitches it got aborted. So people are using this time to have their lunch.