Bay Area Webloggers Unite!
Robert Scobble of Userland put together the first Bay Area Webloggers meeting this evening and blogged the whole thing. It may look like a dry gathering from here but that was about the size of it, really. Everyone was very well intentioned but really wanted to be there to meet and socialize and futz about protocol later. When that got started, so did the fun.
Matt Haughey (who generously gave me a ride home) pointed out that there needs to be strong leaders for any collaborative project to actually, uh, work. Agreed but I’m not volunteering myself (Matt wasn’t asking me to. I’m just sayin’). I’m too new to the world of personal publishing to have anything to add. I’m here to learn.
My friend Kristin did an excellent job of organizing us all for dinner. I had a great train ride down from SF with Evan Williams, Sondra Nelson from C|Net and two very smart fellows down named Jeff and Anthony. At the event, I reconnected with Kevin Fox whom I hadn’t seen in many a moon and met several bloggers I had read but not really met. Since I had few expectations, none were let down. A blast.