Daily Archives: July 29, 2006

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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Change my world…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 29, 2006

The schwag bag at Blogher is better than xmas. Santa never brought me condoms. It’s a writers conference, a creators conference with none of the pretensions of the tech-club . Unlike the BloggerCons, BlogHer strikes right at the heart of blogging… it’s about the bloggers and their work. I’m sitting here with ae (arsepoetica), Melinda [...]

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