Unlike some friends I don't attend to many international conferences, it's hard to compare Les Blogs to similar events. What I can say, a couple of days later, is that it has been exciting and refreshing.

Trying to sell the concept of blogging and social software to most business customers often requires a lot of de-hyping of the whole concept. Going to big company execs sayng that they are about to be swamped by the next revolution in communication curiously doesn't usually catch their attention. This leads to very balanced presentations and measured words in order to convince them to get the tools and learn how to use them.

Well, for a day it felt good sitting in a room with a lot of very smart people discussing how this is the next revolution and it's happening today in the whole world!. It has been a great opportunity to share ideas, I think that everybody walked home from this event changed.

Thanks to everybody and thanks especially to Loïc, Geraldine and the Six Apart staff for organizing this all. See you next year?

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On the way back from Paris, on our Ryan Air 737 we could read: "Dites non a la surcharge kerosene d'Air France". Something similar was written in German about Lufthansa on the way in.

Apparently at Ryan Air they feel this issue is important enough to paint it on their airplanes but not to mention it on their web site (or at least not on their home page). Coming from a company that handles a significant part of its business on the web this looks pretty silly.