{"id":315,"date":"2006-06-19T05:35:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T09:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/vablog06\/"},"modified":"2006-06-19T05:36:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T09:36:25","slug":"vablog06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/vablog06\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia is for Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, I attended the 2nd annual VA Bloggers Conference<\/a> hosted by the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership<\/a>. For two days, I had the opportunity to meet fellow bloggers and attend thoughtful sessions on issues regarding blogging: our relatonship with the MSM<\/a>, blogging ethics, anonymous blogging and pseudonyms, and much more. I hope to provide some commentary on all of these subjects.<\/p>\n

Most interesting were the conversations that I had with fellow VA political bloggers<\/a> and the new bonds of kinship that I formed. My writings are left-leaning, but mainly nihilistic (if we ever see actual liberal politicians in power, I’ll do my best to poke fun at them, too), but I particularly enjoyed meeting bloggers from “the other side”, like Rick Sincere<\/a>, a self-described “gay, libertarian, Catholic, Republican author and theatre critic<\/em>” (really, there’s enough in there for anyone to like) and Tucker Watkins, former 5th District chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia and an aide to Senator George Allen<\/a>. I also made fine new friends like Josh Chernila, <\/a>Jim Duncan<\/a>, Bob Griendling, <\/a>Jennifer McKeever, <\/a>Vivian Paige, <\/a>and Brian Patton<\/a> (<\/a>and others, I am sorry to say, whose names or websites I have forgotten).<\/p>\n

Over the next few days, I will be posting my thoughts and commentaries on the many different conversations, both formal and otherwise, that took place over a scant 24 hours from registration on Friday afternoon until the conference ended on Saturday. This will culminate, by the end of this week, in a Blog Carnival round-up of the best analyses of the Conference offered by my fellow participants. If you would like your own site included in the round-up, please feel free to post a comment here or drop me a line at “VABlog06 AT Semitrue.com<\/em>“. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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