Two further sessions this afternoon – both really around the how to cope with a massively changing environment. Things that stood out:

> Former anthropologist (now at Guardian Unlimited) Meg Pickard who was excellent – talking through the way the Guardian approaches content. I particularly liked the idea of users as curators of their own experiences. Also that we shouldn’t underestimate the importance of editors within this world of user generated content

> …this was even more pronounced when we heard from the speaker from the BBC who talked about the iPlayer (which apparently eats up about 10% of the entire web bandwidth in the UK now) who said that the BBC had been saying for years how we own all their wonderful content – so now we have the technology, viewers are pushing back and saying, ‘yes if we own it why can’t we have access to all of it forever’. Which is a great question and challenge for the BBC. You can see some of their efforts so far.

> Gerald Ratner was also very funny indeed – and probably did a great job of selling his book.

It’s a pity we don’t have much of a profile here at the moment as it would be good to be a part of the

discussions people are having – Genevieve Shore from Penguin talkd about GoodReads and LibraryThing for example – but doesn’t really know us. The majority of the speakers were very good indeed and I think I’ll have to do a bit more brushing up tonight!

See what I do for you – nice of The Bookseller to capture me balancing Mac, phone and conference programme.

Anyway not complaining. They’re doing a grand job on the reporting and Philip Jones, the online editor, has managed to keep a jacket on longer than I. Respect.

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