{"id":381,"date":"2006-08-01T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2006-08-03T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T14:05:09","slug":"thoughts-about-blogher-which-i-did-not-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/thoughts-about-blogher-which-i-did-not-attend\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about BlogHer, which I did not attend."},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: If you weren’t involved with BlogHer in some way, skip this post. I’m not kidding. You’re totally not going to get this and you’ll find it boring. Seriously, click away. Read this old post<\/a> about luggage instead. Or just scroll down the page.<\/p>\n

The rest of you, if you’re really interested…<\/p>\n

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By way of introduction: I’ve been a contributor to the BlogHer site for several months. For the last three months, I’ve recieved a small stipend in exchange for regular posts about Travel and Recreation. I did not attend BlogHer. I am responsible for the much discussed “Fluff” question<\/a>, first mentioned in the BlogHer chat room and then, blogged on A Daily Dose of Denise<\/a> and a bunch of other places.
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I wish…<\/p>\n

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  1. the BlogHer site had a better look and feel.<\/li>\n
  2. the authoring interface on the site was better.<\/li>\n
  3. there had been more complete conference day blogging and virtual interaction.<\/li>\n
  4. that I had not seen “the breasts of BlogHer” photo set and the cartoon about “Who cares about your blog, show us your tits” on the same day.<\/li>\n
  5. so many people didn’t feel the need to explain how it’s not <\/em>all about the moms or the cliques or the a-lists because that sure makes it look like it’s all about the moms and cliques and a-lists.<\/li>\n
  6. that I’d been so excited by the ’06 speakers and topics that I’d thought, money be damned!<\/li>\n
  7. that I understood the value of limiting the focus by gender, as opposed to subject matter.<\/li>\n
  8. that people spent as much time thinking about how to be better writers as they did thinking about how to make their blog pay.<\/li>\n
  9. that I could be the Piers Morgan<\/a> of blog critics.<\/li>\n
  10. that I could tell you that my blog traffic has skyrocketed because of my involvement in BlogHer<\/li>\n
  11. and that I’m awash in excellent offers to write because of my involvement in BlogHer.<\/li>\n
  12. that the BlogHer ad network was not just for moms.<\/strike> (Update, Aug 8: BlogHer is building a new ad network with broader focus.)<\/em><\/li>\n
  13. that blogging wasn’t seen as some magical or radical act because after all, anyone with access to a computer can blog, which makes it more of a middle class act, when you think about it…unless you’re really doing something exceptional with your blog.<\/li>\n
  14. that I could say I feel like I’d missed something big.<\/li>\n
  15. that my skepticism, which I had when I signed up to post for BlogHer last winter, was gone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m still unclear on what BlogHer is\/was about and what the value of my particpation is\/was. I should get it by now, I think. Or maybe I’m just not a BlogHer kind of person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Note: If you weren’t involved with BlogHer in some way, skip this post. I’m not kidding. You’re totally not going to get this and you’ll find it boring. Seriously, click away. Read this old post about luggage instead. Or just scroll down the page. The rest of you, if you’re really interested…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}