Mary Reid

Now this picture takes some explaining... Euan Semple is talking at the International Political Forum on eDemocracy about social networking and Web 2.0.

To illustrate the immediacy of the medium he had taken a photo of me this morning when I had been talking to the same audience about Facebook. He then uploaded it to Flickr, and here it was on the screen already as a bit of reportage.

As it happens, at that very moment I was updating my Facebook status to say that I was attending a session about social networking!

What is more Euan had blogged about what I was saying as I spoke in the morning session.

It seems the circles are turning into spirals (that's the only metaphor I could think of that wasn't pretty rude)..... But it was good to meet him, and that wouldn't have happened if we hadn't both been interested in the social networking phenomenon.