Category Archives: Events

Webzine 2005, a weekend grassroots event all about online publishing, is finally here! Thanks to all of the organizers for their months of hard work to make this happen for an attendance cost of $22! If you are in the San Francisco area this weekend, come down to the Swedish American Hall at 2174 Market Street to meet the people involved in personal publishing and grassroots media while hopefully learning a few things. I will present a workshop tomorrow at noon on publicizing your work using feeds (RSS, Atom, etc.) and tagging. Tags: webzine, webzine2005…

Last night’s geek dinner brought together a variety of people from the world of blogging. I enjoy sitting at a table with a group of people I have not met before and learning about how they meet their personal or business goals by creating or reading blogs. I spoke with a woman in charge of web content for the nation’s largest ball bearing company. She is using blogs to help her company communicate better with its suppliers and differentiate themselves from the competitive market. I always joked about how some day people would use blogs to sell even small things…

About 50 geeks plan to attend tomorrow’s night’s dinner at Henry Hunan in downtown San Francisco. We will have a mini-blogging conference over spicy noodles. Dinner starts around 6:30 and the restaurant closes at 9 p.m. I plan to have the restaurant divide our large group into about 5 separate bills, or one bill for each table of approximately ten people. If you or a friend would still like to attend please feel free to join us even if you can only stay for some dumplings. Henry’s Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma Street 6:30 p.m. Tags: blogbusinesssummit, geekdinner, hunan…

There will be so many interesting people in San Francisco next week for the Blog Business Summit we need to have an informal dinner to mix and mingle. Let’s get together at Henry’s Hunan in downtown San Francisco next Wednesday, August 17, starting at 6:30 p.m. Henry’s Hunan is located at 110 Natoma Street only one block from Blog Business Summit at the Palace Hotel. Please leave a comment below or contact me if you plan to attend so I can coordinate with the restaurant. Please plan for a cost of around $20 with drinks or $15 without. The restaurant…

I just finished a full day of sessions at the BlogHer conference in Santa Clara, a conference focused on female voices expressed through blogs. A met a variety of women who blogged about anything from the life of a professional dominatrix, favorite cupcakes, and analysis of the Supreme Court. You could hear the passion in the quivering voices of women as they stood up to speak in front of this crowd of hundreds and share their story. Most of the attendees I spoke were not local and the conference provided a way for them to meet face-to-face women they…

This Tuesday, July 26, is the second meeting of Tag Tuesday. Odeo developers Rabble and Blaine will share their experience evaluating tagging systems and coding a tagging directory of poscasts at Odeo.com. They will also discuss best practices for tagging backends. Odeo runs on Ruby on Rails with a Flash front-end and makes heavy use of Ajax and RSS. Sound interesting? I hope you can join us at Varnish Fine Art at 77 Natoma Street (between 1st and 2nd) this Tuesday starting at 6:30 p.m. Varnish serves drinks but not food, so I recommend you stop off somewhere on 2nd…

In less than two weeks I will be in Seattle at Gnomedex. I attended Gnomedex back when it was in Des Moines and had a lot of fun. As a former sexiest geek finalist — I lost to a Lockergnome employee — I just have to represent. I’m looking forward to the latest version of the conference in the most unwired city in America. Gnomedex will have a very large RSS presence this year with all the major aggregators attending and new aggregators being introduced at the conference so we can all geek out and make people’s reading habits a…