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BlogOn 2024, "The Social Media Summit," takes place in New York (at the Copacabana of all places) on October 17 and 18.  You can register at the early bird rate of $1095 until tomorrow, or pay $1495 if you register after that.

OR…

You can contact me no later than September 28th and I’ll get you a rate of $550 for both days.

I feel like a shill, but I’m okay with that.  Still (rhymes with shill), in order to feel less shill-like in my shillitude, I probably ought to allow as how I’ve accepted a free pass and the promoters have offered me this deal to share with friends, associates, and basically anyone off the street with $550.

Check out the speakers list and see if the event speaks to your needs.  If so, why not connect with me and get a deal?  (There’s nothing in it for me except the knowledge that I’ve extended a courtesy to the promoters who were kind enough to give me a good deal too).

I still feel like a shill, but I’m looking forward to reconnecting with people I seldom see but feel close to - like Susan Mernit and Judith Meskill.  Looking forward also to meeting Suw and Michael (among others) in person.  Also, I want to add more Mary Hodder snapshots to my collection!   

AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100

August 31

Mary Hodder in Pisani’s Le Monde blog… those table notes have been making the rounds in the last week or so!  Here, in the original…  here’s a summary from Mary of a lot of the commentary on the original… 

Thanks to Halley for pointing to Mary Hodder’s recent piece that discusses the need for and some foundations for the development of better metrics of blogular influence and our interconnectedness.

Ronni Bennett contributes to a Washington Post story today on older people blogging, Blogging Through The Ages, by Jennifer L. Huget.  Ronni, an author whose focus is on aging, will be interviewed today at 11:30am ET in the paper’s "Live Online" feature.  Andy Borrows, and other bloggers with a focus on getting older, are also linked in the story.

Huget’s article is about older people blogging.  She makes some obvious if arguable points.  For example, she suggests that older people ("Seniors.  Retirees.  Empty-nesters.") have time for blogging that younger people lack. Maybe, but I think that writers will write and I know that there are a lot more younger bloggers than older ones. It’s not a very well written story, and it’s clear that it’s an assignment that doesn’t particularly interest her.  I think my willingness to enjoy the story came to an abrupt halt with her use of a neologism, "elderblog."  I enjoy Andy’s and Ronni’s writing.  But I don’t even want to know what an "elderblog" is.  If that makes me a curmudgeon, so be it.  I have some very mixed feelings about this story.  I’m pleased that bloggers I like are linked in the story, but labeling writing based on the age of the author seems like an opportunity to create yet another discriminatory distinction.

Today when you Google the word "elderblog" there are 216 hits.  Technorati indexes no posts containing that character string.  Let’s do our best to keep the hit count on that word low.

Ronni Bennett reads my blog and she likes it.  What a wonderful warm review.  Thank you Ronni!

Where do you want it?  When? How much do you  want it?  It’s a trade show, not an un-conference.  If you have product to sell, you’ll have a fair chance to sell it.  If you’re Yahoo, or Garage-band Podworks you’ll have the same booth space and the same chance to pitch.  Go over to the Blog World Expo blog and leave some comments about the when and where and what you want to get out of it.  This thing is happening.  Probably in Toronto.  Probably in the Spring.