Blog World Conference, Snoopservations
What’s up folks, I’m finally back from Vegas and the Blog World Conference. STILL slightly hung over, but it’s all good, explanation below.
First off I want to give major props to Rick Calvert and what dude was able to put together in a little over a year.
The conference ran like clockwork, the sessions were interesting (although was disappointed at the attendance) mainly because some of the sessions were pretty lively.
John Donavan from Argghhh! describes one of the sessions that frankly would have made great TV!
“Right vs Left: Who’s Winning the Battle of the Blogosphere?”I’m looking over Markos Moulitsa’s shoulder as he is either live-blogging things, or, more likely, answering email. He’s also reading, reading, reading…Hugh Hewitt just asked Markos about what the Progressive side of the ’sphere was doing to grow their own bloggers… and Markos said, “We’ve got something working - but I’m not going to tell you what it is… ” which is a fair enough answer.Update: Interesting, Hugh just asked the panel if they thought that bloggers would find themselves in appointed political positions after the next election?Most of the panel doesn’t think so. Hugh brought up the possiblity that one reason why there won’t be many is that many young bloggers have written with such passion, and sometimes lack of judgement, that they’ll be anathema for appointed positions - and several panelists brought up that it might not be what they wrote, but what others wrote… both in terms honest comments/writings, and “black ops” commenting designed to get the blogger in hot water.
Update: Politics finally showed up with Markos joining in from the floor. The subject that triggered it- Iraq. We’re no longer on the topic of the impact and effect of the left and right blogs, but… simply politics.
The Progressives posited that the only definition of success in Iraq is - troops home. No other definition is possible.
I asked the question of Afghanistan, how did that fit into that frame - and I clearly wasn’t clear - no one answered my question on the substance, and took it instead as an accusation of isolationism on the part of Democrats.
I just wanted them to state a position in re the war on terror, vice the Iraq campaign in the war. But the political filters were to strong for me to get through. Heh.
Jeralyn Merrit did state that if someone attacks us, we should fight back. But she doesn’t believe in preventative war, regime change, much less societal change. As she see’s it - there’s more than enough societal change she wants to effect in the US that we don’t need to be spending that effort elsewhere.
Joe Sudbay said something interesting - the Progressive bloggers see themselves, just as we on the Conservative side do - a conduit *around* the MSM and a way to get stories out that the MSM won’t carry. And they have the same problem interacting with their side of political power structure as we do.
Interesting indeed.
Brad Friedman from “The Brad Blog” posted an entry on Mark Cuban’s keynote: ‘Bill O’Reilly is My New Best Friend’
A blog entitled Pam’s House Blend has the audio of another session that was interesting entitled:
”The Power of the Political Blogosphere.” Professor David Perlmutter moderated, and did a good job of wrangling the sparks between folks on the dais: Hugh Hewitt, Dave Nalle, Taylor Marsh, and Brad Friedman (The Brad Blog) and Dean Barnett of The Weekly Standard.
Somehow I missed this blog on my daily excursions into the blog world. Very highly regarded blog, amongst many of the participants I talked to. I got a chance to read a bit and will add to my required reading list on the left side of the blogsphere.
On Hugh Hewitt’s blog, Duane R. Patterson gives his two cents on the event;
For a first year trade show, this event was remarkable in a number of ways. You’d think people like Glenn Reynolds and Captain Ed would have met face to face before this. They did for the first time coming and going on Hugh’s show Thursday. E-mails and phone calls do a lot in today’s world, but there still is something about human face to face interaction, and there was a lot of that going around. There were all sorts of long distance acquaintances that turned into friendships here. If you blog and weren’t here this time, you missed out. Don’t do it again. We will all reconvene September next, and with the overall success of this Blog World Expo, the bar is going to be set pretty high for next year.
He also has a brief video clip of the musical act who performed at the Pajamas Media sponsored blogger party.
This was the ONLY poor decision of the entire conference. These people sucked.
This act just sucked the fucken life out of the room and I headed to the door. Someone could have just threw on an I-pod with some 70’s tunes and it would have been all good.
I then proceeded to make my way to the little outdoor venue adjacent to Harrah’s to knock down more Long Island Ice Teas, which unfortunately lead to an unfortunate accident in the hotel sink (I could not make it to the toilet, LOL!).
Hey every time I go to Vegas, and hang out at the live venues where they are playing some hard rock with all these young kids and and here I am, one of the few black dudes in the area (not with a posse gold tooth do-rag wannabee thugs) I’m just sitting there minding my own business chillin’ by myself, enjoying the music (Mrs. Snoop avoids these) folks come up to me say hello, engage in a nice conversation and offer me drinks.
A brotha is not going to turn down a FREE Long Island, I’m sorry, LOL!
Anywho, the conference was all good, good chance to meet some other bloggers, particularly those of the left I was not too familiar with. Apparently they are going to do it again in September 08.
If you are able to attend I would definitely recommend it.
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