If You Can Make It Here, You'll Make It Anywhere
The first blogger meeting of the year, and now that Barefoot Coffee has freed their wireless network, I can blog it in real time. Yay!
Hank tells us about the job he just started today, and that he'll go to New York for training in a couple of weeks. I am jealous ... I told him to go to MOMA and see the Pixar exhibit. Ealasaid and I are talking Windows vs. Mac (always a popular topic). And David Kadavy is back! Good to see him again.
And Rich relays rumors of civilization ... no, not civilization in the Western World, where it is sorely needed. I think he is talking about a computer game.
Antwon just joined us and regales us with stories of nuclear-powered Soviet MP3 players.
We talked politics a lot - about Abramoff pleading guilty, and who else would be indicted as a result of this. About all the crooked stuff that has happened in politics recently, like the redistricting in Texas. But then one of us, I forget who although I suspect Antwon, had the idea for a blog sweeps week. We decided on the first February week, Monday to Sunday.
So people, here are the dates: Monday, January 30th, to Sunday, February 5th.
The objective? To win the bloggish sweeps ratings, and have the mostest people read your blog. Ever. I'd tell you more about the sensational stuff we came up with, but you'll just have to come back during sweeps week ...
Awesome, a real-time blogging of the meetup! That RAWKS.
Posted by: Ealasaid | Jan 04, 2006 at 11:09 AM
I probably brought up Sweeps Week, yeah. That's because I did it before! Lookie here! EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
Posted by: Antwon | Jan 04, 2006 at 12:07 PM
An excellent post, indeed. Ah, but how much better if it was available as an RSS feed!
Posted by: Hank | Jan 04, 2006 at 07:14 PM
Hank, Hank, Hank ... nice try. But I disagree. Feeding wouldn't make my post better at all. Just more convenient to the RSS-fed folks. And while I realize that I live in the Land of Convenience (I have long held that the US of A is just that, rather than the Land of Opportunity), my new bitchy self is not inclined to convenience just now.
Posted by: Elkit | Jan 05, 2006 at 03:51 PM
You forgot to add to your New Year's Resolutions the blogging one: "Get an RSS or Atom feed that works" - Bloglines says the last update was weeks ago.... !
Sorry I missed it, I had a date with Edward R Murrow.
Posted by: Kevin Bjorke | Jan 06, 2006 at 12:18 PM
Kevin - au contraire: NOT having the feed was the resolution. I turned it off, and I am quite happy with that decision.
Posted by: Elkit | Jan 06, 2006 at 01:25 PM
I am completely flumoxed as to why this is a good thing. To ignore your OWN feed reader - sure. But to regressively mess up the readers of the world? Color me confused.
Posted by: Kevin Bjorke | Jan 09, 2006 at 03:12 PM
I'm not saying it's a good thing. I simply don't care. (Yes, apathy is destroying the country, and I don't care. Another sign of the impending apocalypse.)
Posted by: Elkit | Jan 09, 2006 at 06:12 PM