September Cleveland Weblogger Meetup

Attend­ing this meetup at Metro Joe’s:

Jim East­man
Martha Lat­tie
Craig Lyn­dall who had free CDs for his band, The Com­pany Line.
Bob Rhubart
Rick Bohan
Ger­ardo Orlando
Tim Russo
Bill Calla­han
Will Kessel
Bill Bar­row
Ken Dun­can
Lori Kozey
Daniella Lindquist
Jerry Ritcey
George Nemeth
Jeff Hess
Adam Har­vey
Tim Fer­ris and Glo­ria Fer­ris
Mary­Beth Matthews
Phở‘s Norka Pages
Jaclyn Stacy
Matt Mar­tinez
Scott Gear­ity
Jack Ric­chi­uto waltzed in after an hour and a half. Hmph.

9 attend­ing con­sid­ered them­selves polit­i­cal bloggers.

We dis­cussed peo­ple who get irate about com­ments left on blogs and then threaten lit­i­ga­tion. We deter­mined that there is already legal prece­dent pro­tect­ing blog­gers from third party com­ment­ing and libel. We dis­cussed the dif­fi­cul­ties of nav­i­gat­ing the FEMA web­site in help­ing NOLA refugees, how to drive traf­fic to your web­site, mainly through com­ment­ing on other people’s blogs. The intri­ca­cies of Track­backs, RSS, and Word­Press plu­g­ins, includ­ing one which will help defend against AdSense pirates. Tim thinks Google Alerts is bet­ter than RSS. There was also the ubiq­ui­tous copy­right dis­cus­sion. Jaclyn, who is still work­ing on fight­ing Wal-​Mart in Cleve­land, brought to our atten­tion their Higher Expec­ta­tions Week. Will brought up Mint as a source of site traf­fic log­ging and Jeff men­tioned AWstats.

Scott Gear­ity had the quote of the night:

The blo­gos­phere is dom­i­nated by this sort of lib­er­tar­ian con­ser­v­a­tive cabal.

Around 9 the group adjourned to Ful­ton Bar and Grille for tasty bev­er­ages. I rode my bike home.

Comments on this post

  1. Lori Kozey

    Adam, you are the king of the note­tak­ers. Thanks for com­pil­ing all the links into one handy place.

  2. George Nemeth

    It wasn’t the 9 polit­i­cal blog­gers either

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  4. Rick Bohan

    Thanks to all the vet­er­ans who were so con­ge­nial in shar­ing ideas and info with us new­bies. I’m still try­ing to fig­ure out this track­back thing though…

  5. Right Angle Blog

    Glad to hear about the vibrant NEO blog­ging community.

  6. Steve FitzGerald

    My wife needed me (no, I don’t mean it that way) so I had to miss it. Thanks for the notes, Adam… next best thing to being there. I hope to make the next meetup. I missed every­one and I owe George a brew.

    All the Best,
    Steve FitzGerald

  7. Adam Harvey

    You should join us some­time RAB, new faces and voices are always wel­come. I know you like to main­tain anonymity though so maybe you already have been to one… ;)

  8. Tim Ferris

    Good of you to chron­i­cle the event. I did ben­e­fit from being there and will be back. It’s a very inter­est­ing, inde­pen­dent group, and they share, and I can learn.