So I’m back in the UK after the Aula MOM 2003 event and I’m feeling a bit flat. I was talking about “The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything”, which is kind of an old thing of mine that I’ve never really written about properly. It’s directly inspired by Clay’s Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing and indirectly insired by Dan Hill’s thoughts on Adaptive Design. I was on a kind-of-panel with Matt Jones and Dan Gillmor. Fun new people I met (alongside the whole awesome Aula crew) included the terrifyingly uber-connected Joi Ito, the insightful JC Herz and the charming Eric Wahlforss. And it was nice, as ever, to bump into Cory.
So why do I feel flat? I don’t know – I suppose a variety of reasons. I didn’t feel comfortable with the way I presented my piece, I guess. Or maybe I didn’t feel comfortable with the way I presented myself. Maybe I was unsure with the contribution I made generally. I don’t know. People said really interesting things, really interesting people said really interesting things. But I felt a bit … I don’t know … Unconnected? Unproductive? Maybe I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep…