I'll start with the business cards and then slowly expand from there. Deal? Deal.
Lisa Canter was one of the first folks I met at BlogHer. I think Susan Mernit introduced her to me. I'd seen her, Marc and their kids walking along Lincoln Street past Walnut Creek's library when A. and I lived there last year, but I hadn't talked to her up close and person(able) until Friday afternoon.
Bill Humphries was sitting at a table during Saturday afternoon's tagging session. His was a friendly and welcome face.
Debbie Notkin and Laurie Toby Edison contribute to Body Impolitic. They joined (as well as photographed) Kim Pearson of Professor Kim's News Notes and Liza Sabater of culturekitchen at a table near the pool Friday evening.
Tarita, an Oakland podcaster whose plans will purportedly put a certain P-word in its proper place (that is to say, everywhere), was a vibrant and vital presence in the Friday evening poolside discussions and in Liza's "digital ethnorati" birds-of-a-feather session Saturday. Another contributor was
Trevor Parham was standing quietly on the sidelines of Saturday morning's keynote speech wielding a videocamera. We gave each other the Universal Black Man's Acknowledgement (eye contact and quick nod) and talked after the keynote ended. It turns out he was down for the day with some students from Level Playing Field Institute's summer academic camp Smashcast. One of the students was a young brother, so their presence tripled the black-male presence at Blogher.
I enjoyed PetConnection contributing editor Christie Keith's riffs on marriage equality and indie fear of black/gay musics from the audience during a particularly good panel on identity and obligation.
I sat by Laura Scott, president of pingVision, during Saturday afternoon's keynote. Raines Cohen was just dapper as he wanted to be, and a mensch for offering me the loan of his tripod during Saturday afternoon's keynote.
Another post ought to cover the rest of them.
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