finally. maybe if you convince them that the slides are an essential contribution to a better understanding of “blogging”, they’ll be kind enough to release them.
By the way, I thought this quote of Matthew’s

“Before I started I asked for a show of hands on who was already writing a weblog and none of the roughly 20 attendees showed a hand. This shows how these things are far from commonplace here in Germany – ”

shows pretty clearly that there is yet a lot to be done.