April 17, 2004

BloggerCon Kickoff

BloggerCon is tomorrow at Harvard! Sooz put together a kick-off dinner at Boston's historic Durgin Park restaurant. I got to chat with Gordon and Fran from WestportNow, an independent local-news blog from Westport, CT. It's a neat idea; how much truly local news does your local paper or TV station actually show? It sort of hearkens back to the day when every town of any size had its own newspaper.

I also got to meet Bob Cox of The National Debate, a thorough and fairly tongue-in-cheek clearinghouse of information on the pundits who keep America's op-ed pages and cable-news channels humming 24/7. If you follow blogdom, you may remember T.N.D. as the site that got sued by the N.Y. Times for its parody op-ed corrections page.

Then it was on to an impromptu performance of the The Accordion Guy outside Faneuil Hall. Watching some street skaterpunks breakdancing to an accordion version of "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" is an experience I won't soon forget.

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