I think SEO blogtalks belong to different conferences.

Categorization should have been made!

1. Blogger Ethics
2. Passion that drives a blogger, money second
3. Offline connect with the real world for bloggers

As for the entire event, I personally like the structured unconferences like Startup Saturdays which has fixed agenda yet encourages a lot of discussions.

(Ps: I volunteer for SS, but mentioning here cos I really like the concept)

I would like to see next blogcamp with more focus on

1. Talk on Legal issues involved with blogging in india.
2. How to write quality content.
3. Talks on blog platforms other then wordpress and blogger / blogspot.

1. People are using blog/bar camps as a way of branding themselves or there companies. This dilutes the content. Having attended camps in multiple cities I see this happening all the time. Speakers are speaking just too much about themselves or their blogs/companies rather than focusing on topic. Eg – Sandy’s talk was excellent, rich in content, at least perception I get from twitter streams about it. Focus should be on delivering such talks.
2. Money – Blogging is much more than money. Very few people actually look to make money from “blogs” . No offense to any one, but most of the blogs that claim to have great readership and are making money are not really blogs, more like journalists. Blogs which talk, discuss and put forth views on a specific topics will generally not have advertisements or any revenue models with them (Dhananjay’s tech blog for example). So please dont focus on how I can make money from my blog topics. thats not objective for most “bloggers” .
3. What I was looking for was topics which can help me in improving my writing skills. Like Navin mentioned get a editor to make sure simple mistakes are avoided etc. Things like this are more important, at least for me.
4. Too basic – I understand that there are always new people coming to blogging, but lets at least judge the audience interests and expertise before making assumptions that everyone wants to hear about same things again and again and again. All we need to do is put up a good page together on wiki about previous camp, put up all sessions,presentations there. If speaker wants he/she can put up some gist for newbies to get started with.

Bottomline is Blogcamp 2 should be “Blog” “Camp” and most importantly “2″. It should not be blogcamp1 repeat telecast!

Couple of quick comments on your comment :

a) It was my assessment that a large proportion of the audience was looking for figuring out how to become better bloggers and probably would’ve been keen listeners to your talk. Just that those interested on the SEO/pageviews stuff were far more keenly asking questions. I think one of the assumptions of a open spaces is likely to be the fact that everyone is roughly similarly capable, articulate and assertive. If this assumption about the audience is not going to be true then the more articulate will always be able to far more substantially influence the proceedings. Thats a thought, lot of us should keep in mind.

b) I don’t agree that blogcamp falls under the category of unconference and thus everything is OK and right – since I pointed out that at least as per my reading the four rules of open spaces DO NOT apply apply to barcamps and thus the unorganisers should have both the latitude and responsibility to attempt to make sure that things end up being OK and Right.

I had prepared for a presentation which was supposed to talk abt what a blog magnetizes apart from money.. but looking at the kind of audience and talks going on… I was not motivated.

I think many things went wrong:
1. Venue – Should have been more spacious
2. Talks – Timeout banner was missing
3. Speakers – were not speaking for the audience but were speaking abt themselves

Sad but the fact is BlogCamp falls under the category of Un-Conference and thus everything is OK and Right.