Comments on: Seattle Bloggers: We’re Here to Stay

By: Skook: KOMO Blogger Meet-up

Skook: KOMO Blogger Meet-up — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:51:37 +0000

[...] usual, I’m word deprived. Chris Pirillo, who apparently was a force in putting the event together, is not so handicapped.I did have fun, met some folks whose names I’ve forgotten, handed out some business cards and got [...]

By: SJ

SJ — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:14:56 +0000

All I can say is that it was fun. It piqued my curiosity enough to stop hiding in my house, and that’s good.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:02:16 +0000

Awkward or not, another thanks for being just “one conduit” for this event. I occasionally went to the blog meetup at Ralph’s a long time ago, but it seems like attendance at those has waned substantially; so it was great to be part of such a big crowd.

You wrote that you weren’t really the person to credit for this event — care to say anything more about how it came about and how your name was attached to it? And how it managed to be blissfully agenda-free?

By: Joe Pruitt

Joe Pruitt — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:54:08 +0000

Chris, how do I go about getting involved with these meetups in the future?

-Joe

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:10:45 +0000

“Then, someone else dumped a few of the group shots onto my desktop (thanks to the help of another local blogger).”

The KOMO employee with the Canon 20D (I think it was a 20D) is the one who took the pictures. I happened to have a PCMCIA CF reader in my tablet and dumped them onto your desktop with my thumbdrive.

Thanks for a great meet up. I’d definitely do it again!

By: Sean Harding

Sean Harding — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:31:26 +0000

Sounds like fun! I wanted to go, but I ended up having no fewer than five conflicting things last night. Apparently it was a popular date. The event I ended up going to was our Intern Open House at Google in Kirkland, which was another way to meet a bunch of interesting and smart people :-)

By: dan robinson

dan robinson — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:08:57 +0000

Chris,

Great meetup! I carried the microphone upstairs for you. Do you have model information for it?

Cheers,

Dan

By: Anita Rowland

Anita Rowland — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:14:24 +0000

I wish I’d made it! but I wasn’t feeling quite up to it last night. Notes allowed on one of the flickr images would help ID people.

By: Rob Dunlop

Rob Dunlop — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:40:14 +0000

Thank you Chris for being part of the event last night and serving as the semi-mc. I think the suggestions you raise above are terrific and Fisher is very much interested in continuing to host these events. It was a great opportunity to meet so many wonderful folks who are actively engaging the community in dialogue on such varied subjects.

I was regularly asked about KOMO’s “agenda” and I can assure you there is none. We are interested in joining the blogging community as bloggers ourselves and wished to get to know others who are doing the same.

As for Dave’s comments of a few days ago (excerpts on your site on July 30), we would expect and hope that all of you would continue blogging for or against media outlets like KOMO-TV as you have/will/might etc. We welcome the feedback and straight-talk.

Thanks again Chris!

By: Slumberland

Slumberland — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:25:33 +0000

Bloggers invade KOMO…

Photo by l0ckergn0me.

Last night KOMO-TV hosted a local blogger get-together at Fisher Plaza. I was a little suspicious — after all, they promised us food, alcohol, and swag, and why would KOMO want to do that for a bunch of misfit blogger…

By: Jackson

Jackson — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:09:24 +0000

Chris,

Are you familiar with what WKRN in Nashville has done over the past few years? The short of it is that they hosted blogger meetups, launched a blog focused solely on highlighting what local bloggers were saying, and features blog highlights in their local newscasts.

It has all kinda fallen apart in the past few months, but for a couple of years WKRN was doing great. As a result there is a really tight-knit community of bloggers in Nashville.

By: Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog

Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ve been involved in many of these, and this was by far the best organized and best attended one of the lot. Some of that’s attributable to the web hip community of Seattle (we invited 800 active bloggers), but I’ve got to tip my hat to Chris Pirillo

By: Metroblogging Seattle

Metroblogging Seattle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the Stranger. [p-i] Amazon has a new grocery delivery service and I still haven't been invited to try it out. [amazonfresh] Recapping the KOMO 'blogger meetup thingy, with some suggestions for next time. [pirillo] [IMG]

By: Writer Way

Writer Way — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've been known to roll my eyes when my husband describes a party as "relentless socializing," but that phrase perfectly described last night's high-energy doubleheader: A blogger confab organized by Chris Pirillo (Lockergnome) and hosted by KOMO, followed by a Biznik get-together at the intriguing McLeod Residence gallery in Belltown. (The evening went into extra innings: A late-night supper of "happy hour" tidbits at Flying Fish with a couple of fellow

By: Blogs | pegasusnews.com

Blogs | pegasusnews.com — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

blogger meet-up hosted by Chris Pirillo and sponsored by The Company's ABC-affiliate TV station KOMO. There were easily 150+ local bloggers in attendance, which surprised me. Seattle is a much bloggier town than the DF-Dub. In a case of it being a smallish world, I spent an inordinate amount of time talking about