2005 January 24

After this week's live show, we're gonna be gathering down the street at Blu Water (Leschi) at 10pm – so it's more like a Geek Midnight Snack. There's a bar and a restaurant that's open 'til 1AM, but no Wi-Fi. Bring your camera, cards, and make reservations ASAP so that they're not overwhelmed and understaffed. Spread the word to other Seattle-area geeks. I'm looking forward to meeting even more of you! Geeks are obviously welcome, and more than welcome to bring their non-geek counterparts. Understand, too, that you're responsible for your own tab. Dinner is not ON me – it's just WITH me.

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We all know and love Robert, but today he gave his first Keynote speech. Even if he was giving a “regular ol’ speech,” I’d still be very proud of him. Why? Because he’s himself, and not afraid to be himself. Speaking to people who typically have to hide behind the corporate veil, Robert did a fantastic job at getting people to understand that there’s something really happening here. He did it four years ago at the first Gnomedex when he told us about Radio Userland and something called a “news aggregator.” His relevancy is just as high as it was back then. His speech wasn’t so much of a speech as much as it was a call to corporate action.

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The world of business is filled with many people, but how many people are really in the world of business? That is to say, how many people relish the opportunities that come from interpersonal relationships? Anil Dash is one of those people. One of the first employees of the now-seventy-strong Six Apart, he’s now guiding business to other businesses who are using MovableType as a CMS. This very site is running MovableType – which is the CMS I recommend for people who don’t think that a CMS could help streamline operations.

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As you can see, I'm at the Blog Business Summit – doing business, and not much blogging. Yes, there's WiFi, but power strips would have been a billion extra dollars a day – so I understand why Steve (the business conference coordinator) decided to pass on it. Right now, I'm out of my chair and on the floor in the back of the room – where I'm getting juiced up. Look at all these Aerons! Dude, I've got a nice office chair, but… Aerons!? The name, alone, makes me feel smarter. The price of any one of these chairs, however, doesn't. I'll have to wait until another dot-com goes out of business before I can pick up another cool chair. Most people have lousy “executive chairs” in their office cubicle and/or home office, but if you spend all day long at a desk, it makes sense to get a chair that's very comfortable. Oh, and there's Scoble – without a chair, but with plenty of wine and cheese.

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Mitch Ratcliffe is a name that’s known throughout the tech world – for good reason. He writes for Red Herring and has been fueling conversation since the dawn of time (or, at least, the early ’90s). During my energetic presentation this morning, which Marc Canter began with a bang, Mitch pitched a very important angle into the audience.

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The Blog Business Summit is in full swing. We plan on getting more interviews tonight at the mixer, but we’re not waiting for hors d’oeuvres! Here’s Halley Suitt, giving a qualified perspective of the entire event. Not only does she do Tarot readings, but she predicts the future with her short stories for the Harvard Business Journal. Seems the world of blogging and business are coming together, and this is just the first of many perspectives you’ll hear about it in the coming days.

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After this week’s live show, we’re gonna be gathering down the street at Blu Water (Leschi) at 10pm – so it’s more like a Geek Midnight Snack. There’s a bar and a restaurant that’s open ’til 1AM, but no Wi-Fi. Bring your camera, cards, and make reservations ASAP so that they’re not overwhelmed and understaffed. Spread the word to other Seattle-area geeks. I’m looking forward to meeting even more of you! Geeks are obviously welcome, and more than welcome to bring their non-geek counterparts.

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Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear ROBERT – happy birthday to you! Birthday parties are fun, although as you get older, they become a lot less colorful. We celebrated last night with cake and cheese – but no cheesecake, oddly enough? I didn't see any ice cream either, but the pate was beyond excellent! I met a few new faces there, as I've been following their online voices for quite a while. Hopefully, I had enough party skills to capture everybody on the video. My next birthday probably won't be very exciting, although it's set to happen about the same time that Seattle is celebrating some kind of Seafair? Birthday cake for everyone!

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