Actually, there were a few private meetings yesterday but today the public session opened with speakers at 8:45 AM.
Town Hall, an event sponsor, has a prominent booth set up at the conference.
Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved were going to broadcast their shows live from the expo.
Katie Favazza, who writes with Town Hall, was representing Town Hall at the booth this morning.
This was cool...
I looked up during the first panel session I attended and saw this on the screen.
The first panel was exceptional. I plan on posting a great clip from this session later on.
Professor David Perlmutter (not pictured) moderated the session on "The Power of the Political Blogosphere." Panel members included: (left to right) Dave Nalle, Hugh Hewitt, Brad Friedman (Brad's Blog), Taylor Marsh, Dean Barnett (Weekly Standard), Pam Spaulding (Pam's House Blend).
Much more later on...
I am getting ready for my panel session at 4 PM.
UPDATE----
** Captain Ed reports on our panel discussion on "Raising the Discourse."
** KT Kat has much more on the session.
Dean Barnett on right (Sox Blog, Weekly Standard) and Eric Egland (left) -Candidate for Congress.
Matthew Shephard (Rather Biased and NewsBusters) talks with LaShawn Barber and RedState blogger Soren Dayton.
Pajamas Media creator Roger Simon poses with Pajama-clad "bloggers" at the Pajamas booth.
Hugh Hewitt broadcasts his show from the expo.
Charles "Chuck" Ziegenfuss, the man behind Project Valour IT, was on duty at the Milblog booth.
Roger Simon and the Glenn Reynolds were hanging at the Pajamas Media booth.
Superstars T. F. Boggs, Mary Katharine Ham and Uncle Jimbo from Blackfive met up between sessions.
Lori Byrd has a sick child at home but says to tell everyone she said, "Hey!"
Way cool!
ReplyDeleteHave a great time!
What geeks. Doing good work but for Christ sakes, grow-up and buy some adult clothes. You embarass yourselves. Pathetic!
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ReplyDeleteFantastic!! just got finished listening to a few
bloggers ie: Roggio, Uncle Jimbo, Egland, & i
forget who else via Hugh Hewitt!! (thumbsup)
you're doing a great job & i hope you're
all having a great time as well!! :)
thank you all!!
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Thanks for the link! I had a great time at the conference. I just got home and I am totally burned out.
ReplyDeleteCap'n Ed commented on Blog Talk Radio that the conference was overrun with geeks. But, as a general rule, you guys need to post more pics- it's great to see the faces behind the blogs. As a natural pluralist, I'm also intrigued by the idea of right and left bloggers physically running into each other, as opposed to hiding behind their keyboards. Real face time increases civility- and that's a good thing.
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