BlogTogether

Duke students are blogging from around the world. Read a news article and see notes from our Duke-sponsored BlogTogether happy hour back in February.

I still haven’t resolved the BlogTogether logo contest, but I did find a new template to use for the site. A new logo will be swapped in later. A couple of style and formatting changes yet to make, but check back soon for the new site. UPDATE: Switched back to the old template until I straighten out some kinks in the new style.

A good set of links: 55 Essential Articles Every Serious Blogger Should Read.

After a spate of dwindling attendance at the Raleigh Bloggers Meetup, this meetup at the Raleigh Times Bar had a great turnout. Sam Ruby was there, as was fellow IBM programmer Pat Mueller, Michael Kimsal, Jackson Fox , Wayne Sutton, Dave Johnson, Didier and Anton Zuiker. The group decided to broaden the scope of the meetup, so future gatherings will be open to programmers and “code monkeys” in addition to bloggers and web designers. See the new Raleigh Web Tech community.

They did it this weekend in Boulder: Startup Weekend and vosnap.com. Let’s think about doing this here in the Triangle …

Bora’s on his new PLoS job as of today. Read about his plans to grow that online community, and do your part to help him succeed.

From our Greensboro blogger friend comes a new placeblogging tool, We101. Add your blog today. (Thanks Paul Jones for the tip.)