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Monday, April 04, 2005

Triangle-wide Meetup 3/29 notes

Finally, I give you my long overdue notes of the regional bloggers meetup last week, held in my Durham home on a glorious Spring evening. In attendance: Mike Fieschko, Josh Staiger, Tara Sue Clark, Jerry McClough, Jane Peppler, Karen Mishra, TheShu, Derek Lane, Brian Russell, Sayan Chakraborty, David Warlick, ae, Jackson Fox, Roy Kim, Corey Reece, Ross Meyers, Tim King and mistersugar. Tara Sue, Ross, Jerry and TheShu had driven in from Greensboro, and they offered up a lot of their experience and commentary on organizational blogging — a few of them are involved in offering blogs to each of the VFW posts (that’s 9000 blogs across the country, though I’m not sure how many of them are being used) and NAACP chapters — as well as a few questions about the continued role of corporate media and journalists. TheShu, who created Triad Blogs, mentioned he’d be bringing us a Triangle Blogs aggregator. Ross talked about managed blog networks and revenue streams, and said a couple of times that his Choices of Democracy platform was a “Trojan horse” that would lead to revenue streams. (We may need him to clarify just what the heck he means by that, especially in light of his fear that big media is co