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