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The day is finally here... It's BlogFest!

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BrunoTech · 09/11/2013 00:58

This here is the all-singing, all-dancing BlogFest Live Blog thread: the place to post all your 'Festy updates if you're joining us in person at Kings Place - and also the place to hang out if you're with us in spirit only , for an hour-by-hour report on the action.

The Bloggers' team will be checking in regularly to give you a sense of the day as it unfolds - but this live blog is most definitely a communal effort, so if you're at BlogFest, please do post your updates here. You can also upload photos - just click on 'choose file' at the bottom of the thread. You have to have IOS 6 or later if you're on an iPhone though, so make sure you download the latest version.

Finally, don't forget you can talk and read about BlogFest on Twitter, using the hashtag #BlogFest.

So, BlogFesters - smartphones/iPads/laptops at the ready, please, and let's get this party Live Blog started

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 07:38

So long as you're dressed by the time you get here, katese11. Don't want to scare the horses

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 09:21

Everyone gathering for the opening address now - very exciting. Much gulping of coffee ...

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 09:32

Ooh, look: here we all are

The day is finally here... It's BlogFest!

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 10:08

Our own JustineMumsnet raises the curtain on the day's festivities

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 10:27

Really vigorous debate around free speech and online anonymity in the opening session on what kind of internet we want. LOTS of love in the room for Stella Creasy ...

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 11:23

In it for the lolz.
Viv groskop asks 'can you learn to be funny or is it innate?'

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 11:43

Tim Dowling admits: 'it's my wife who's funny, I just write it down'

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 11:59

Who do you allow to read your writing before it's published?

Viv Groskop: 'not my husband. He appears in my book quite a lot and the first question from my publisher was 'is the husband going to sue?'

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KateMumsnet · 09/11/2013 12:11

We're on to our Think Bombs - five to ten min blasts on the theme: 'how will technology change how we think', from psychologist Prof Tanya Byron, technology 'thinker' Dr Sue Black, and the fab Jon Ronson. Tanya's up now - she's talking about the need to reallyt think before we regulate 'difficult' content online - because if we do, we close off a channel for people who previously haven't had any voice at all.

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KateMumsnet · 09/11/2013 12:13

Tanya says it's a question of risk versus opportunity. We're already raising kids in captivity - they're doing their thinking and learning online. We can't take that from them - but we try to.

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 12:16

Think bombs: How will technology shape how we think?

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KateMumsnet · 09/11/2013 12:32

We're in the strange and wonderful world of Jon Ronson. He's telling us about the time he discovered that a group of German academics had created a Twitterbot version of himself. It tweeted constantly about fusion food and dinner parties, which gave him the rage. But when Jon confronted them, they were equally cross that that he wanted them to take the bot down: “You’re saying there is only one Jon Ronson and you want to maintain that authenticity, but we’re not persuaded by that. We think there’s already a layer of artifice and that it’s your online personality – the brand Jon Ronson – you’re trying to protect.” “IT’S JUST ME TWEETING,” he yelled.

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KateMumsnet · 09/11/2013 13:00

BARNSTORMING Think Bomb from Jon Ronson there - on whether technology is encouraging a pitchfork-grabbing herd mentality.
Of Twitterstorms and online outrage, he said: "[Public shaming] was abolished as a punishment in 1837 – the stocks, the pillory, the scarlet letter, the whipping post, the lot. And now they’re back, delivered like remotely administered drone strikes..."

His talk also involved aforementioned German academics and multiple uses of the C-word. Only at a Mumsnet event could this happen

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 13:30

oooh, we've got our lovely professional pics coming through now. Here are Toby Young and Stella Creasy MP locking horns in the opening session on the sort of internet we're after ...

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 13:31

oops, try again:

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 13:32

... and here's Justine, kicking things off

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 13:34

wish you were too, petite. Next year?

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 13:34

ah, the pic of justine hasn't worked. trying again, again

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 13:36

We'll do a glorious gallery later

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SarahMumsnet · 09/11/2013 13:38

oh lord, it's there now

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 14:28

Helen Lewis from The Newstatesman chairs first discussion after lunch: 'Shaping the debate: how blogging and social media can change the world'

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 14:42

Laura Bates @Everydaysexism says if she could go back and do things differently she would 'turn on moderation from day one'

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 14:42

Laura Bates @Everydaysexism says if she could go back and do things differently she would 'turn on moderation from day one'

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 14:43

Oops

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RachelMumsnet · 09/11/2013 15:08

Next up: our v own SarahMumsnet chairs 'cracking yarns and tall tales: how to tells better story'. Lionel shriver's pink boots causing quite a stir on twitter. Best tweet of day: 'We Need To Talk about Lionel's Pink Boots'

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