Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

A trip to Vienna is being planned. On 23-24 May, the city that was once the jewel in the Austro-Hungarian crown will play host to the BlogTalk conference. Some 300 bloggers from all over the world will gather to discuss the use of micro-content-management systems. The use of blogs within business and educational contexts is also on the agenda. Say the organizers:

"Blogs are ideally deployed in the fields of public relations, marketing, product development, knowledge-management, project-management, reporting, research, and of course journalism. They are further ideal tools for personal private publishing."

Keynote speaker will be the marvellous Rebecca Blood. Other speakers on the lengthy list include, Dan Gillmor, Jose Luis Orihuela, Henry Copeland, Gilbert Cattoire and Martin Röll.

See you in Vienna.

Diarist of the day: Adrian Mole, 6 April 1982

"The nation has been told that Britain and Argentina are not at war, we are at conflict. I am reading Scoop by a woman called Evelyn Waugh."