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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.