Dave Sifry of Tecnorati was in town yesterday to discuss the beta version of his search site and pontificate on the direction of new media and nanopublishing. The discussion was attended by Joi Ito (who I concluded looks much larger on the web than in person) and the rest of the Tokyo bloggerati. The discussion was good, and I was fortunate to meet a number of interesting people. I was also pleased to see that the Japanese community was well-represented there, as blogging is really beginning to take off here as well.
Having heard Dave’s talk on Technorati I can say that, while I don’t know much more about Technorati than I did yesterday, I am more enthusiastic about meeting more people in the blogging community and doing more with my own site. Having done this for about 8 years now (i.e. – way before the term “blogging” was coined) I have to admit that the thrill has worn off a bit recently. However, now that the tools have improved so much and so much intergration and aggregation is taking place I have to admit things are becoming interesting once again.