Saturday I had a first and interesting meeting with Barbara Strebel, one of those rare women that can look back on ten years on the net, bringing THE THING to Switzerland, involved in starting nettime et cetera, a long, long time ago. An internet dinosaur that is very much alive indeed, knowing many of those early pioneers and real online heroes.

Anyhow, she's not actually a techie, rather sort of a "social engineer", dedicated, a bit frustrated about local culture politics and its players, with some bad feelings about former combatants but still with an obviously immense capacity for enthusiasm. We spent almost the entire day together, and one of our many topics was blogging (speckled computing was another), we even tried a live demo and I'm pretty sure she'll also have a weblog soon.. I'd love to see her blogging.

If you've been a long-time attentive reader, you remeber mentioning her a long time ago, and if you know her you might also guess what she thinks about that posting of mine. Anyway, she didn't actually know me before reading my blog, read it, mailed me, and soon after we meet in Basel. The internet seems actually good for something :-)

A report on my lifeClipper experience follows as soon as those guys send me the pictures of me as a wired cyborg - so stay tuned :)
After that, my next report from wired Basel will come from Viper or earlier.