February Seattle weblogger meetup

The February Seattle Weblogger Meetup focused on illustrating your blog with photos, and it coincided with a big photo opportunity: The eclipse of the moon.

Minutes before the meeting, the Samurai Radiologist posted a quick iPhone shot on Not Totally Rad. And Kim, a serious photoblogger, had a stock photo of the eclipse up on Something to Say. Mike, who writes often about radiological issues, talked a little about Mach bands, something we see in photos that might not really exist. Apparently we can blame this on horseshoe crabs.

New to the meeting were Natasha J ("tech lovin' communications maven") with daughter Ava (featured often on Natash's working-mom blog) and Kendrarella. Kendrarella has so much blog-worthy material from her world travels she can't make up her mind where to start!

Jack Bell (Antigravitas) showed off his new MacBook Air (with lit-up keyboard and glossy screen) and photoblogged the meeting using his iPhone. Bill Boyde explained once again why his blog name (Overdue Bill) is appropriate to his blogging frequency.

Dennis of Orcmid's Live Hideout brought a serious camera along and we're looking forward to his photos of the meeting.

Clark Humphrey of Seattle indie news site MiscMedia and I rounded out the meeting. The Seattle Weblogger Meetup group has been attracting quite a few new members; as the transitional organizer, I'm planning on serving up some topic-focused meetings for the next few months, seeing how the group evolves, and recruiting a new organizer in May or June.

If you have ideas for meeting topics, would like to serve as the assistant organizer for a while (you get to approve new members!), etc., please let me know. I'll be sending out an email to the whole meetup group with this info shortly.

Seattle Weblogger Meetup

The Seattle Weblogger Meetup this evening at Ralph's in Belltown night included Hamburger Lad (complaining of blogger's block), Clark Humphrey of Misc Media (showing us preview copies of his latest book Seattle's Belltown), and Jack Bell, who had his hands full with grandson Riley (who is celebrating his 5th birthday this week). And me, taking a break from Thanksgiving cooking.

Seattle Weblogger Meetup

It was a small gathering of veteran webloggers Wednesday night at Ralph's: Clark Humphrey of MiscMedia.com, Hamburger Lad of the Hamburgerland blog, and me. (Anita and Jack, we missed you.) We saw some familiar faces across the room; they turned out to be a small group of tech types meeting to discuss something called "actual programming."

One of the topics the bloggers talked about was using Blurb to archive a blog and print it out as a book.

No fancy new gadgetry at this meeting...Clark and I both had older laptops with us and discussed strategies for upgrading.

Just realized that we missed the chance to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Seattle Weblogger Meetup Group, which was founded in October 2002. Perhaps at the next meeting? That'll be Wednesday, Nov. 21. Come join us at Ralph's.