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11/17/2004 Entry: "November Seattle Weblog Meetup Report"
We had a good turnout tonight for the weblog meetup! My sister kindly took charge of our grandson for the evening, so both Jack and I had a chance to converse with folks. I'd say about twenty five people attended. Jake has the list. He told me that he's now a meetup organizer himself, for the Bremerton Young Dems Meetup.
New faces: Todd with a weblog that he hasn't posted to for a long time (but a great name, The Vented Spleen), TDavid, Kara, Robert Raketty, Rob Greenlee, Peter Yorke, Annabel, and Harry Love. Dave Winer attended for the second time. Did I forget anyone?
Lots of lively discussion (and I mean that in a good way, not as a euphemism for argument). Funniest comment I heard: "He lectured me about lecturing people!" The pizza was tasty, and the Ralph's employees were in a good mood. Michael Hanscom posted a nice panorama image to flickr. I need to add a note to the venue description on meetup.com to let people know that the electrical plugs are only along the back wall of the dining area, and we don't usually sit near there. An extension cord would be a good thing; I'll try to remember to bring one to future meetups. The comfy chairs (four padded arm chairs with an ottoman in the middle) got a lot of use this time, which pleased me.
I'm thinking about what would be fun to do for the December meetup. Should we do something special for the holidays? A white elephant gift exchange?
Replies: 4 comments
Hi Anita - was nice meeting you, your husband and the rest of the local Seattle Bloggers.
As for December gifts? I'm a maybe (again) for December, but if I come, I'll go along with whatever the group consensus is on the gift front.
Actually, am thinking about bringing my son to next month's meetup. He is learning how to be a webmaster for our local community website via our site webmastercookbook.com
Oh, and as promised, I posted the OPML file of the blogger attendees for November on one of our blogs here: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/pivotblg/entry.php?id=1169
My program couldn't locate the RSS feed for this blog. If you post to me the feed URL or send to me I'll be happy to adjust the OPML file when I get some time.
Thanks :)
Posted by TDavid @ 11/21/2004 06:31 AM PST
I was gonna be there this time and then I completely forgot! Argh!
(BTW, the ping problem where Slumberland wasn't showing up in your crawl is fixed! Apparently there was a server issue. When this particular server issue happens, the blog can't ping Weblogs.com -- but there's no error or anything to let you know why...)
Posted by litlnemo @ 11/19/2004 02:16 PM PST
How about doing what Mikey and John did - just all of us bringing stuff we've been meaning to off-load - it sorta fits the "white elephant" theme and we (some of us anyway) could bring tons of stuff and leave it on a table for anyone to pick and choose?
Posted by Chas Redmond @ 11/18/2004 05:07 PM PST
wow y'all are taking over Ralphs--hope to be there next month!
Jeff--nice haircut :D
Posted by jon @ 11/17/2004 10:10 PM PST