This is something some of us have commented about the difference between last year and this year. Last year the Blogger’s Cafe was out of the way, you had to make an effort to go there for the conversation. This year the area, although the same size seems to be a “rest your feet” area for many. Not that I can blame them, but it does take away from the ‘feeling’ of conversational space.

I do think we need two different spaces. They are two different formats of learning. Neither one is better then the other….just different. What we need is another Cafe style area that is more traditional in nature. The Blogger’s Cafe is too crowded, too much a foot highway, and too noise to do anything even semi formal. The best session I’ve seen in the Blogger’s Cafe today was when Bud Hunt grades the computer and projector and took a bunch of us on a tour of Plurk. Informal, unscripted learning. My own session there was not good, people doing there own thing and others walking buy chatting made it confusing at best. There needs to be a happy medium…can we find it in time?