Thanks for adding me, Doug -
It's great to be a part of this bursting community!

hello Doug,
yes, please keep us posted about the conference.
I would like to suggest the inclusion of dance-tech.net and DNA World in your list of blog.
Sure they are not blogs, bur social networks.
I am the creator of dance-tech and the admin of DNA world.
http://www.dance-tech.net
DNAWorld
http://dnadance.ning.com
Perhaps including a category of Social Networks?
Cheers and have agood trip.
Marlon

Thanks, Doug...

I hope life is wonderful for you these days!

the dance-tech listserve and its ning network seem to be more spots for putting out promotional material than blogging original ideas or content. marlon's feed is already listed in the greatdance blogroll.

lets not dilute things too much please.

Hello Thomas Twine and all,
With all my respect to your opinion on dance-tech.net, I just would like to make things clear here:
dance-tech.net is a social network that I created inspired by a discussion in the dance-tech list serve but it is an independent initiative that serves that community. (that is why it is called dance-tech.net)

"spots for putting out promotional material"
in relation with this comment, I think that it is totally misleading.
dance-tech.net has a section block in the left sidebar of organizations friends as a way of including the "real word" organizations to help the community and the network. I think that this "bartering" strategy is working because we have also members that are presenters, sofware producers, festival, etc. They also offer a series of benefits to the members:
http://www.dance-tech.net/page/page/show?id=1462368%3APage%3A14988

I conceived the network with an strategy that is inclusive of artists, designers, technologists, theorists and promoters in an attempt to eliminate serious communicational/organizational splits.

I have not placed any advertising (google adds) nor I am getting a cent for this work and I consider that all the organizations included as institutional friends are relevant for this practice
The donations (only one) that I have received, such as wireless miditron for dancers, are going to a contest to motivate experimentation and the sharing of information and knowhow.
http://www.dance-tech.net/page/page/show?id=1462368%3APage%3A19466

I also think that stating that there is not "original material" is a heavy handed and an unsupported claim towards dance-tech.net more than 300 international members that upload material everyday and from more than 50 video interviews that I have produced in short and long formats with more than 3000 views only in dance-tech.net. Some of the interviews been selected to be part of international festivals and are part of courses in dance and multimedia technology.
Saturday, I interviewed Alva Noe, a philosopher from UC Berkeley on interdisciplinary research on dance (see draft herehttp://blip.tv/file/996998)

The community has also uploaded more tan 200 videos.

So,

I conceived dance-tech.net as an ecology of knowledge, so I think that, your claim about my comment as diluting things is out of place.

So, far dance-tech.net (as separate entity from the list serve) keeps growing and it is an active"community" of knowledge and practitioners.

I also think that this kind of platform is different than blog because it is not so "author" blogger centered as blogs are conceived. They reflect the pulse of a community using a "aggregation" strategy and I as the producer try to steer and give space for creativity and participation.

I might be blind but the only link that I found in the blogroll is with my name and liked to a wrong page of the network. So, I was just trying to remind Dough of the important of putting the correct linking:
www.dance-tech.net to http://www.dance-tech.net

In this way it will be clear for our community that dance-tech.net has a place in this media landscape and they can judge by themselves.
That is all!
Thank you.
peace,
marlon barrios solano
nyc

Thanks for comments...what I'll probably do is create separate category for the handful of social networks that serve the dance community.