Except during the conference, I spent most of the last week offline. Well, almost. I could get on-line at pretty good speed with my 3G phone, but the cost of IP roaming is just crazy (0,75 eurocent/kb = 7,6 Euros per Mb).

This meant that quite a few times I opened my aggregator and found myself picking single feeds instead of getting my usual "river of news" style page. There are sources and friends I'm willing to pay to read but honestly they are a minority.

I'll create a few sub-groups in my aggregator to be able to easily read only my favorite feeds, no matter how much it's going to cost. All others will have to wait until I get on a broadband connection. It's an interesting exercise.

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After one week in Paris our home seems incredibly calm, silent and relaxing :-)

Les Blog has been as good as I expected. It might seem a bit naive, but I still find exciting meeting so many incredibly smart people at these conferences. As David Weinberger wrote recently, we are the strange ones living on the internet house boats while the rest of the world thinks we are crazy, and they are right. Spending two days in a room packed with crazy people makes you feel normal.

I won't write again about how cool and weird is shaking for the first time hands of bloggers you have been talking with for years: it was great to meet for the first time Robert Scoble, David Sifry and Peter Kaminsky. Just like it was good meeting again Thomas Burg, Hugh MacLeod and Ben Hammersley. Or meeting new interesting friends like Anina and Jian Ni.

Thanks to Loïc and all the Les Blogs staff for the great experience.

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