Monthly Archives: July 2006

fraught

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 31, 2006

For a while, a year and more ago I thought I’d make my fortune with the Blog World Expo (yes, there’s a wiki somewhere too). The moment passed, but I still feel the need for a blogging confab — a web communications summit — that combines the best of everything. I caught glimpses of what [...]

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monetize that

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 30, 2006

Thanks to our friend Leslie in San Francisco for sending this reportage on BlogHer. At the convention, brand-name companies lined up to greet their potential business partners. The lunch break was sponsored by Weight Watchers. Funding for the keynote seminar was provided by Johnson & Johnson, which also used the event to launch momver sations.com, [...]

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for those with regrets…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 30, 2006

Many, many people have emailed and posted regarding their regrets at not having been able to memorialize MEG on Friday. It was a small gathering, five people, two of whom didn’t really know her but who were paying their respects none-the-less. Here’s what I think… Michelle believed in love and so many of us loved, [...]

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Homeward Bound

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 30, 2006
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end of the trail: monetize this

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 30, 2006

I turned in the POS General Motors rental at 5:30 this morning, a 2006 Pontiac GT with about 25,000 miles, a few more miles on it than my Toyota Matrix, and though a little beefier in the acceleration department, a rattletrap vehicle nonetheless. We put 1115 miles on it since last Sunday. I drove 1093, [...]

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BlogHer 2006

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 29, 2006

I think this was a wonderful event and I hope the people who worked on it received a generous dose of US dollars for the energy they put into it. Call it a success, perhaps not unqualified. Bandwidth pretty much sucked. I left the laptop in the room today. The munchies could have had a [...]

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San Jose

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 29, 2006

BlogHer

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Girl Geeks

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 29, 2006

Plenty of girl geeks here too, of course. Mary Hodder just spoke from the floor. Liz Henry is sitting a little ways away. Yesterday Liz was wearing little cat ears… or maybe badger ears? Today she looks more normal. Kind of. There’s a chef talking, eggbeater… “I’m just a a food blogger.” She’s emotional about [...]

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