Saturday, April 29, 2006
First of all, sorry for the unannounced absence. Actually, I've been around, just busy without time for new entries. When I get to posting again (shortly), don't be surprised if it seems like I've gone through a time-warp and stepped several days into the past. You know how it is...link pack-rat here...and sometimes I just have to get stuff up on the blog of record. Har.
Anyway, we had a very successful New England blogger meeting on Thursday night. We had a nice dinner, cafeteria-style at the Boston University Hillel, but don't let the "cafeteria" bit fool you, it was good! Then we retired to a meeting room downstairs and had a very stimulating round-table discussion.
Representatives of the following blogs were there (in no particular order): Augean Stables, neo-neocon, sisu, SoxBlog, Chicago Boyz, Ace of Spades, PetiteDov, Miss Kelly, Bearing-Witness, and Daniel-In-Brookline. (I sure hope I didn't leave anyone out.) There were also a couple of well-known local raconteurs there anxious to partake of some stimulating conversation (and free beer no doubt!).
Looks like this will become a regular thing. Hope to see those who couldn't make this one at the next one, and if you're a local blogger that would like to be added to the invite list, drop me a line.
Landes is now a regular blogging maven. You've created a 'monster'... lol! It was only last year when you were asking me for his contact info again regarding the project he did you making a long post on it... you wanted to interview him on it I think?
Do you have the link to that eventual long series of posts?
Mike
the meeting was great. let me repeat here one of the points that i raised there. in a couple of years the blogosphere will be a decade old. i think we should be preparing a book on the history of the blogosphere, with testimonies, analysis (esp of the impact of 9-11), etc. if anyone is interested, please be in touch.
rl
It was a fun meeting, all right, and I look forward to many more!
I'm sure there will be many books on the Blogosphere. I haven't read Hugh Hewitt's book BLOG, but I'm told it's good... and there are others who, I'm sure, will want to make their blogging output more permanent.
In re the impact of 9-11: a point I wanted to make on Thursday, but never got around to, was that Charles Johnson's blog went through some dramatic changes back then. Have a look at Little Green Footballs, just before 9/11/2001 and then for the weeks following. He seems to have gone through a transformation similar to Neo's... but in his case, we get to watch it happen in real time.
Richard: please keep us posted in re the France 2 court cases. If you blog about them, we can certainly make sure that the word gets passed -- via Pajamas Media, Power Line, etc. -- and we'll get the word out.
cheers,
Daniel