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Bloggers Predict: 2008

So last night, the good peo­ple of Unlim­it­ed Poten­tial held their annu­al Blog­gers Pre­dict event, in which they get a bunch of guys (empha­sis on the all male­ness of the event) to say what they think is going to hap­pen over the year.

The Blog­gers

• David Far­rar, of Kiwiblog fame
• Mauri­cio Fre­itas, Geek­zone Guru
• Hamish MacE­wan, local vision­ary
• Philip Fier­linger, turntable tech­nol­o­gist
• Tom Beard, Wellur­banite

No doubt those nice peo­ple will post about what their pre­dic­tions were, so let me instead tell you what my pre­dic­tions are, and then after the jump, I will share with you my thoughts on the night in note form.

My predictions

• Hope­ful­ly they’ll try hard­er to get a woman on the pan­el. “They’re all at the Lin­ux Con­fer­ence” is not good enough, because while I do love Bren­da, turns out that there actu­al­ly are oth­er females inter­est­ed in tech­nol­o­gy in Welling­ton. I sup­pose they could argue that no women approached them in 2007 about doing it, but meh.
• Face to face con­tact will make a come­back, facil­i­tat­ed by inter­net arrange­ments, like Face­book Events, etc. The stig­ma of meet­ing some­one over the inter­net will be almost entire­ly gone.
• All new work­place Codes of Con­duct will specif­i­cal­ly men­tion blog­ging

After the jump, my non­sen­si­cal (did I men­tion there was free beer?) notes from the night.