Preaching blogs to a non-blogging audience?

John Wilpers just holds an interesting pro-blog-implementation declaration. Now I am the one already knowing most of the presented ideas and data and dare to say that might not be the case for most of the people here. I am not sure if 25% of the people actually ever tried to start a blog.

For the first time today I really looked around. I wondered: This is a conference to talk about the future of newsmedia and there are only one or two participants acutally using a notebook. Nobody is twittering on his iPhone (and if it is only to giggle that the guy on the stage is an enthusiastic douchebag - which he isn't). If I went to such an event, I'd write about it on my company blog or at least discuss presentations at this blog.

2 questions:
1. Am I being naive here?
2. Am I wrong with my guess of how many people at the conference actually blog?

Tom | 2. Oct, 15:08

Don't you think John is enthusiastic?!
Helge Fahrnberger | 2. Oct, 15:10

I actually counted 15 to 20 notebooks in the room, including ours. So it's no soo bad.
TomSchaffer | 2. Oct, 15:17

you are right, actually almost all of them are sitting behind me, so looking around i didn't see them :D

still, I don't see more than 2 in the room left of me (sitting far right)