so today I went to the bay area bloggers meetup hosted by KRON TV, not knowing a soul in the place, it was interesting to say the least, craig from craigslist was there and I met two people - Rachel and Scott from Fiat Lux - nice, cat people. There were about 100 or so bloggers there but I'm shy when it comes to meeting people especially when I have no idea who they are. And the dimmed lights in the stage area was killing my head, I couldn't focus - still having slight trouble seeing in a dark room after the laser surgery but back to the topic. I did finally talk to maddog from maddogblog, I've seen his blog before and found it interesting.
The GM and President of KRON TV, Mark Antontis had some assumptions about bloggers based on what he knew from people on his team, that we were all very large people and looking around the room, most of the people were skinny. Another thing, after he did his speech and got the group photo and mingled for a few minutes, he left. It seems to me, if you're trying to get a handle on this "new media" as he called it, wouldn't you stick around longer? Maybe seek out the shy bloggers engage them in conversation? You know the shy ones, that become wallflowers at events like this, that are alone, stare off into space because they don't know anyone.
And when he said they KRON TV is going to maintain a list of Bay Area Bloggers - ok cool, but doesn't someone already do that?
I still can't quite figure out how they got my email address because the one they have isn't related to my blogs, its my personal website which my god, I completely forgot about until this moment and I don't use it for a blog anyways.
I would have loved to meet Tweezerman and Rhye but alas they didn't come.
Would I go again, probably not unless I was definetly sure that I was going to meet someone I wanted to meet
And look mom, i'm in the news
9:59:00 PM 
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