Our first (of many to come) Durham Bloggers Meetup was tonight at Tyler’s Tap Room at the American Tobacco Campus — we had the Triangle Bloggers Bash there last year. Tonight, we grabbed the only empty outside table we could find — the Durham Bulls final game, a playoff match, was tonight — that just happened to be painfully close to a couple of grimy barrels of rancid cooking grease stashed in a corner of the courtyard. Good conversations nonetheless. Bora Zivkovic was there, along with Pam Spaulding, Eric Johnson, bc and Clinton Colmenares (where’s your blog, Clinton?). Pam told us she’s been invited to speak in Birmingham, Alabama at an event of Equality Alabama. She also mentioned she got 65,000 recently when her early post about Idaho Senator Larry Craig got a link from Perez Hilton. Then, a lot of science blogging talk. Eric mentioned that Brian Hare and Vanessa Wood will be moving to Duke in January, and that Vanessa is writing a blog about her research in the Congo, Bonobo Handshake. About that time, Clinton showed up and told us about his initiative to create a consortium of research universities. More on that in a few weeks, once he’s submitted a grant proposal for a cool project. Next blogger meetup is in Carrboro on Wednesday, Sept 26 at 6:30pm at Milltown. Then we’re back in Durham Wed, Oct 10 at 6pm at Tyler’s Tap Room. And don’t miss the food blogging event with Michael Ruhlman on Sept 24!