Moi. The Gimp aka Keyser Söze, Sommelier and purveyor of Musica Dei Donum Optimi.

Yes, yes, please post and post.

We also have a Twitter account, and if there are any crazed uncontrollable twittering fanatics among us, I'm glad to hand out the logins. I've tried but the twittering thing isn't really my thing. You know, I'm just old fashioned: I like to write long and thoughtful articles of 1000 words once a day, the old-fashioned blogging way. :)

In any case, the more bloggers the better. And as I said earlier, photos and recordings should be posted and shared as widely as possible.

Last year, there was a great dearth of blogging, and that's because we were all so busy and overwhelmed by the experience. Sadly, for the rest of the world, it seemed like the sacred music movement went completely quiet for an entire week! can't have that. Won't do at all this time around. We must have endless yammering and chatting and posting and buzz. Seriously.

Can anyone think of a workaround to the problem that the music and experience is so overwhelming that we all tend to stop posting?

Maybe a few of us could just strap cameras to our heads and live-stream the experience.

Last year I had a terrible problem trying to find a computer, and ended up just not checking my mail for a week. If you have computers available, that would help SO much! Or if I bring my own, is there Internet?

I, who have one of the original home computers, (I think it was made by Thomas Edison....or do I mean Gutenberg?) am in jealous amazement of all of you with laptops :oP, and will be forced to make do with homing pigeons, and a string and two tin cans my husband has put together for me.

Seriously, it was very easy to get access to the computers at the library at Loyola.

(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)

G - You can come and tap away on mine for the four days that I'm there.

I always wanted a homing pigeon.

Oh I think we should post them all here. And I can and others can certainly post them on NLM and then also on Musicasacra and etc. etc. this is who things spread.

Anything that's on this forum, whether it's summaries or pointers to blogs, will be buried inside the other content pretty quickly. We'll reach each other here, perhaps, but few new people will ever find it. I propose that we put a connection on the COLLOQUIUM page, pointing to the various blogs. When people hear about the colloquium, they'll be able to see what actual participants were saying about the experience. When advertising next year's Colloquium, we'll be able to show what people said in 2009. Very similar to the continuing value of producing that excellent video from last year's Colloquium.

Who owns the Colloquium pages? Is this easy enough? What information do you need from us?

It's a good idea to post on the front page. Let's start a thread here and then we can repeat them on the front page. I think we did that last year.

I have a phone thingie too - and I just tested it. Yippee.

mj, you have a phone thingy and you tested it? It's kind of hard for me to follow that.

Jeffrey - I succumbed to an iphone and managed to figure out how to post to Sacred Miscellany from this device.
To you, that's small potatoes. For me, it's another technological leap forward.

As a consequence, if I learned the secret of eternal musical happiness at the Colloquium, I could rush into the hall and post it forthwith.

That's okay, MJB. My husband and I are iPhone snobs too, and we'll join you in writing that "Colloquium app."

Jeffrey,

I have a Blackberry Storm with Verizon and can do everything an Iphone does w/o having to use AT&T wireless. You should be laughing at the Iphoners in that case.

Jeffrey,

Trade it in for a Blackberry Storm. It's pretty darn close to an Iphone.

OK, I started a Sacred Music category on my blog: http://dierschow.com/wordpress/?cat=21

Okay, no more of this "you show me your phone, I'll show you mine!"
I think I'm coming into a good deal on some Mondavi Reserve Cabernet, and if you want me to pack some in the UPS case for the last night, thou shalt not further carp on anything QWERTY!
"And the second commandment, Charles?"
THOU SHALT NOT TWEET, TWITTER or just be a TWIT!"
I happened to make the mistake of opening this month's AARP rag during lunch today, and again was reminded what dweebs we Boomers are- there was actually an article by some geezer addicted to his Facebook habit.
Of course, our time here is, uh, spent......invested.......uh........donated, yeah, dat's it (Morgan Fairchild).....donated to the edification of the Faithful and soli Deo gloria.
What is this thread about again?

Scott has a Blackberry Storm, Jeffrey. In January, it had much more cachet than a 3G IPhone. But January was light years ago....sigh.
Curses, I broke my own commandment. No syrah for me!

Just don't let Arlene anywhere near that little Verizon notepad that's so June 09!!! You won't see her eyes lifted for the whole week.
Oops, bad Charles, bad Charles.
Is there any other kind of Charles?

And I thought taking photos during Mass was bad! :-)

I'll bring a chisel and mallet to engrave on my blogelisk when I get home.

I can make an omelet that looks just like a torculus resupinus. Does that count as chantblogging?

Light the signal fires! The Colloquium has begun!

Good reminder, Charles -- who's in charge of the giant puppets for the CMAA Colloquium?
How tall is the doorway to Madonna della Strada?
If we were REALLY progressive we'd use them for Liturgy of the Hours, not just Mass, doncha think?

(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)

Who's responsible for the cuneiform?