I think I’m too uncomfortable to keep doing this. Sitting Indian-style on hard and cold concrete is not good for the bones. Or the well-padded butt, for that matter.

“Gee, you’re kind of boring compared to your cartoon character.” Yes, we are more eloquent on the page than we are in real life. In real life, there is no editing!

What’s missing from blogging: damn, I didn’t understand a word that guy was saying. I’m sure Darin will fill me in later. Oops, now they’re showing something on the screen, which I can’t see, since I’m down here on the hard concrete floor.

Showing an “audio blogging” experiment. Much applause. A guy added an audio blog entry via cell phone.

To be challenging to the reader is fun—to mindfuck your visitor is great. Pages on the web that tell you how to do it are just wrong. You can just post an image. Maybe the images take you different places.

“I do it because I get off on it.” Boy, does that sound familiar.

How has blogging changed your habits as a writer? “There’s a lot more guilt in my life about not writing. The instant feedback from people is great…I trust myself more because of the feedback.”

How much of Boing Boing’s content comes from readers? The editor estimates 50-50. That’s pretty amazing.

Blogs as threat to conventional journalism? “Conventional journalism will change. It’s going to get harder to make money at it.” (Because so many people are willing to do it for free? I’m unclear where he’s going with this.) The writer needs to know about something, and thousands of readers can immediately help him out with it.

“Now that I get to do exactly what I want to do in the way I want to do it, how do I make money off it?” Welcome to the Internet, honey. Of course, she has a pilot at MTV, so what do I know?

“Advertising may work for special interest blogs.” Well, how true. See also: MSNBC’s blogs.

Oh dear. Questions from the audience. I find my already tenuous attention span drifting more. I’m websurfing. The perils of WiFi—sure, I’m supposed to be paying attention, but instead I’m checking out reports from today’s 4 Million Al Qaeda Member Marches.

Random notes taken from the discussion:

Everyone can blog: see, there was a homeless guy who had a blog! Internet from the library, blogger, blogspot—all free.

Questions: Where are the artist bloggers? Where are the people making alternative ways of blogging? Why is everyone repeating the same stories on each and every blog?

Censorship: what do you include? The MTV pilot chick discusses linking to date-rape-fantasy and bestiality sites.

Women trading their self-respect to be part of the boys’ club: exhibitionist blogs? Trading sexuality for viewership: is there something wrong with that?

“You’re pretty than tons of these girls making money with webcams!”

What do you have to do to get money from readers? Ask, evidently. The guy speaking says he got a thousand dollars and a trip to Aruba (or is that, a thousand dollars to pay for a trip to Aruba?). Hmm. Such a deal. I wanna go to Aruba. Should I put out a tip jar? Discuss.

“Blegging.” That’s funny.

What makes a blog interesting? Tonight’s insight: Editorial judgement.

(Augh. Traffic going in and out. They really did not plan this space very well.)