I noticed a big difference in the coverage in the blogosphere of this year’s conference versus last year’s. That leads of course to the question: is it the conference or growth in bloggingI don’t have any stats, but my sense was that blogging was very much in full swing last year, and its rapid growth may be behind it.
That said, I thought I’d sum up what I did see.

Meaningful Data http://meaningfuldata.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/re-naming-the-semantic-web/

Bruce MacVarish http://www.brucemacvarish.com/2007/06/index.html

Word Press http://wordpress.com/tag/semantic-technology-conference/

Library sputnik http://austlit.edublogs.org/2007/06/12/a-little-news/

Read/Write Web http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2007_semantic_technology_conference.php

Arch2Arch http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/rmanning/archive/2007/05/semantics_and_e.html

Dean Allenmang http://dallemang.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/blind_ambition.html

Bill Trippe http://www.billtrippe.com/archives/2007/05/impressions_of.html

WebCentric http://webcentrics.blogspot.com/2007/05/2007-semantic-technology-conference.html

Panaton http://dagoneye.tumblr.com/post/2547584

Dr. Data Dictionary http://datadictionary.blogspot.com/2007/05/impressions-of-sem-tech-07.html

Copia http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/

Oralce  http://blogs.oracle.com/otn/2007/05/21#a503

Axonomics http://www.secondintegral.com/axonomics/?cat=4

Magazine coverage as well

Red Herring http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22375&hed=Semantic+Web+For+the+Masses

InfoWorld http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/22/semantic_tech_conf_garlik_1.html?source=NLC-SOA&cgd=2007-05-31

Not everyone was happy

Business Intelligence Network http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/4605

This is probably just the tip of the iceberg, but compared to last year, when it seemed there was only a mention or two — something’s happening.

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