BlogTogether

Chapel Hill bloggers gathered at the Open Eye Cafe yesterday, and when WillR asked the manager to soften the music that was echoing in the cement-floored cafe, she offered to let us use the back meeting room. That turned out to be a perfect location — it’s a good space and has strong wifi, so let’s meet here for the next couple of months. In attendance yesterday: Rob Gluck, Rob Zelt, Steve Cory, CongoGirl, Terrell Russell, WillR, Kirk Ross, Roy Kim, Josh Staiger and Anton Zuiker. !sciencebloggingconference

Please join me for the Chapel Hill Bloggers Meetup this Thursday, May 11th at 6 p.m. at Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro. Note that this is a new location. There is wifi, (I checked Chapel Hill Wireless). We’ll be joined by Terrell Russell, who will talk about claimID, a new service for keeping track of your online identity (mine’s here). Terrell encourages you to request a beta invite and try it out before Thursday’s meetup. He’ll have to leave by 6:45, so please be on time. We’ll do our normal chitchat after he leaves, unless anyone else wants to demonstrate a site or software or online tool.

WUNC’s State of Things show will discuss political blogging today. Friday evening will see Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos speaking about his book, Crashing the Gate at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, 7 p.m.

Lance over at BlueNC has announced The NC Blog Index Project bq. Overview: The number of blogs in North Carolina is huge and growing. A list of them is nice, but not that informative. I’d like to put together a user-editable database of NC blogs based on keywords and locations. Anyone should be able to add their blog to the index, and anyone should be able to browse the index. Seems like a good project to take the NCBlogs effort one step higher.

When I worked at NC State (as an editor for the ag college), I met with techies at the main library. Their adoption of blogs and RSS feeds showed that someone in the institution understood new media. And that led to WolfBlogs, a university-wide blogging service running Dave Johnson Roller.