The first edition of the Tar Heel Tavern carnival of bloggers is up at Bora’s Science and Politics.
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The first edition of the Tar Heel Tavern carnival of bloggers is up at Bora’s Science and Politics.
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 11:55 AM. Filed under: Statewide •
This week in NC blogging: * Raleigh/Cary Bloggers Meetup Tuesday at 6. Details on the left. * Chapel Hill Bloggers Meetup Wednesday at 6. Details on the left. And coming in March: * Greensboro Blogging Teach-In Saturday, March 19. Details here.
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Justin links to this speech about community blogging.
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 09:05 AM. Filed under: General •
Here’s my letter to the editor the News & Observer ran yesterday (no free access to letters archives, that I can see; N&O version was edited slightly): bq. Regarding Jeff Danziger’s “With the Troops” cartoon (Feb 21 N&O) and Ted Vaden’s Eason Jordan essay (Feb 20 N&O): You’ll be happy to know that the Triangle Bloggers Conference on February 12th gathered more than 140 bloggers, journalists and community organizers from across the state to talk about how weblogs can build community, inform the citizenry and empower minority populations. And we were all wearing clothes, thank you. I’d encourage your readers to visit http://blogtogether.mistersugar.com to learn about the vibrant and diverse group of people who write weblogs in North Carolina. Very few of us are conspiracists or armchair generals. Anyone can blog, and in this state you’ll find parents and politicians, students and seniors, writers and artists and so many others expressing themselves through their weblogs. — Anton Zuiker, Triangle Bloggers Conference organizer
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 07:50 AM. Filed under: Triangle •
Anonymoses posted the Triangle Blogwall, a collage of pics of bloggers in the area.
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 10:03 AM. Filed under: TriBlogCon •
Dave Matusiak wanted to raise a point at the bloggercon: bq. So, in my overall gross estimation I would have to say that my experience in The Blogosphere has been mostly negative. And that is the topic I wanted to broach with the roomful of journalists and web reporters gathered at Tri Blog Con 2005, but couldn’t get a word in edgewise. Plus, I didn’t want to derail Anton’s little experiment into the seedy underbelly of the ‘net. But that is why I was there. More than anything I was curious to see what the other writers experience was with these deleterious side-effects of maintaining a web presence. Share your thoughts with him here.
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 10:33 PM. Filed under: TriBlogCon •
Second Chapel Hill bloggers meetup went well, with 11 of us gathered in the same corner of the Caffe Driade patio: Bernard Glassman, ae, Ruby Sinreich, Tim King, Corey Reece, Justin Watt, Dave Johnson, Anton Zuiker, Bora Zivkovic, Bruce Loebrich, Roy Kim and Karen Mishra. In our roundtable introductions, Bernard related how he was asked by NCI to create a blog that was “trenchant and interesting.” Roy briefly mentioned his tabulas.com effort, something I hope he’ll explain more thoroughly at a future meetup. Karen introduced herself as a j-school doctoral student interested in researching the local blogging community, and reported that Michael O’Connell gave a blogging101 presentation to a JOMC graduate seminar today (where none of the doctoral students reported being bloggers). Justin used a great round-about way to introduce himself, relating how he was in the grocery checkout line earlier in the day and when he glanced back, recognized a rock-n-roll singer, who coyly acknowledged Justin’s recognition of her (see Justin’s neatlinks mention of le tigre). Someday, he said, I’ll be in the checkout and someone will glance over and say, “Justinsomnia?” Ruby mentioned her mother recently started a blog because a family member was gravely ill; I started Zuiker Chronicles Online just before my grandfather, Frank the Beachcomber, passed away in 2000. A good friend of mine also recently started a blog for his family as a way to deal with the illness of a family member, and in Greensboro Jinni Hoggard is blogging about her cancer. Memo to journalists who want to use the pajamas reference in a story about blogging: write about how farflung families are brought closer together through blogging about illness. (You’ll have to mention Kaycee’s blog.) Corey told us he’s recently moved to Carrboro from Florida; he’s looking for a job to use his experience creating web applications for distance learning. (See Corey’s resume.) Bernard said he needs a graphic designer immediately. Brief discussion of cat blogging. Dave told us he’s the “blog evangelist” at Sun Microsystems, where he gets paid to develop his open source Roller blogware and promote blogging by more than 1000 employees. Then brief discussion about differences between blogs and wikis (personal and community, said Dave). Bernard asked about cross-posting between two or more blogs, I shared how my post today helped me understand I could combine my two blogs into one, and Dave mentioned Ben Hammersley’s crossposter for Movable Type. Next Bora explained Sid’s brainchild The Carnival of the Vanities, introduced his local version The Tar Heel Tavern and asked everyone to link to the Tavern and spread the word about submitting your two best posts about North Carolina. (Bora’s posting a comprehensive listing of all the varied blog carnivals. My god, Sid, what have you wrought?) Quote of the evening: “I’m a real carnival whore,” said Bora. Dave likened the blog carnival idea to a progressive dinner, and Bora offered that it’s like a potluck. I talked about how I edited an old post today and wondered what obligation I have to note that at the top of my blog. “Should I link back to that now-updated post or should I just leave it until Google searchers happen upon it, whereupon they’ll read the original posting and then see the edit?” Consensus seemed to be we should note any updates or edits. I had to leave at this point. Any report from the other attendess on the rest of the conversation? Post in comments, please. Thanks to those who attended. Chapel Hill Bloggers Meetup next meets Wed, March 2 at 6 p.m. at Caffe Driade. There will be a Raleigh/Cary Bloggers Meetup Tues, March 1 at 6 p.m. at The Teck Cyber Cafe. See details of both meetups in the menu at left. [Edit: Added Justinsomnia graph a two hours after the original post. Added link to Corey’s resume 2/24 4:47 p.m.]
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Tonight. 6 p.m. Caffe Driade. See you there.
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 02:47 PM. Filed under: Chapel Hill •
Eric Muller wants feedback on moving IsThatLegal off Blogger.
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 11:30 AM. Filed under: General •
Ed points to the j-lab article about Greensboro101
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Following up on the idea for multiple Triangle meetups, I’ve gone ahead and planned the first Raleigh/Cary Bloggers Meetup for Tuesday, March 1 at 6 p.m. at The Tek Cyber Cafe & Internet Gaming Center on Hillsborough St. across from Meredith College. It has free wifi, a coffee bar, and comfortable couches; Playmaker’s for dinner and Ben & Jerry’s for dessert are next door. RSVP here. The next day is my last as an employee of N.C. State University (I start a new job in Chapel Hill the next week), so this first meetup accomodates my schedule. I’m hoping the Raleigh/Cary bloggers can choose a regular meetup time and place at the meetup during our chat at The Tek. All bloggers and those who want to talk about blogging are welcome. See you next Tuesday. And a reminder: Chapel Hill Bloggers Meetup is every Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Caffe Driade on Franklin Street. (RSVP here.) 
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 02:43 PM. Filed under: TriMeetUp •
Textdrive is offering a second round of its lifetime hosting investment offer. A great deal for great web hosting. (Disclosure: I’ve got lifetime hosting with Txd, so your support of Txd helps me; a dozen or so other NC bloggers are hosted with Txd, and everyone seems quite happy with the service.)
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 10:40 AM. Filed under: General •
See Brad Jasper’s Blogosphere News. Brad’s a student at Appalachian State University, and he also runs the Blog Directory.
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See what they put together up there in Vancouver: Northern Voice.
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 02:51 PM. Filed under: Bloggercons •
How we organized the Triangle Bloggers Conference: * e-mail – started 12/20/04 with a message to Paul and Ed * blogs – the three of us posted to our blogs (Anton, Paul, Ed) and solicited reactions in our comments * wiki – editable page for anyone to sign up and offer ideas for the conference, created before Christmas, using Instiki * more e-mail – lots of personalized messages sent to friends, colleagues, fellow bloggers and newspaper editors * links – Dave Winer, Jay Rosen, Cory Doctorow, dozens of other bloggers and sites link to the wiki * listserv – bloggercon announcement sent to various university and community lists * big names – Paul invites Dan Gillmor to campus as part of the ibiblio speakers series; Dave Winer accepts an invitation to drive south; various local blogger luminaries add their names to the wiki list of participants * word of mouth – talked it up among friends, family and even strangers * news release – news release posted to the wiki, and submitted to UNC news service (see this for how that transpired) * media interviews – Paul and Anton interviewed by local radio and newspaper * other events – visits by Dan and Dave lead to journalism/blogging talks in Greensboro, a bloggers brunch in Chapel Hill and Dan’s speech at UNC-CH * Ta-da List – used the free service at tadalist.com to keep track of the tasks for planning the conference * sponsorships – though it breaks the BloggerCon rules, we learn later, Lulu.com sponsors the coffee and doughnuts; the School of Journalism and Mass Communication offers its support (Jen O’Bryan prints nametags and hard-to-miss neon signage) * help – the crew of ibiblio (Fred Stutzman and others) contributed technical support and video recording * welcomes – everyone’s welcomed to the event; John Ettorre flies in from Cleveland, Cathy Resmer flies in from Vermont, and two guys drive in from Atlanta; more than 125 people gather Feb 12 for the conference * liveblogging and follow-up posts – dozens of bloggers write about the conference before, during and after the event * thank you notes – e-mail messages of thanks to all who attended; written notes to key participants to be mailed this week
Posted by mistersugarmistersugar at 10:58 AM. Filed under: TriBlogCon •
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