I loved what you did with yesterday’s post. Thanks for indulging me, sweet people. I hope you can picture me reading your responses, as I always do, this time with wide eyes like a four year old on Christmas morning. Think Cindy Lou Hoo. With crispy straw hair. I may ask you to play with me in such a way again soon. Please oblige. Or the cats get it.
Word on the street is that I decided to go to BlogHer this year. 2010. I haven’t been in two years, since it was in Chicago the first time (three years?) when we were on a panel about personal blogging, discussing our lives in detail and possibly becoming digital exhibitionists in the process (I’m quite sure that last phrase will get me some decent spam).
I’m so. freaking. excited. Laurie, Kristabella, Stacy and I have put in an application for a Room of Your Own, a session within the regular agenda tracks that is chosen by the people, for the people. Or something like that. We’ve proposed a session on personal blogging without labels for those of us who write without a well-defined niche. Those of us who aren’t mommybloggers or politicos or photographers or foodies, or are, quite possibly, all of the above. We propose to talk about our role in the blogosphere, whether we can establish a thriving sub-community of our own, and what our legacy will be. Not to mention a strategic and standard response to the question, “what do you blog about?”
Laurie recommended we answer, “YOUR MOM.”
Thankfully if chosen we have some time to work on that one.
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I would camped out in the first row for that session. And I would applaud the “YOUR MOM” comment. Sounds like it will be fun!
I came late to the party, but I jumped in with both feet on your last post- just now.
And also… LOVED Laurie’s answer (above).
That just covers everything, doesn’t it?
Laurie didn’t really say that. I made that up. :)
ARTISTIC LICENSE, PEOPLE.
Still, it’s a great answer!
Don’t try to cover for me now, lady.
Dammit, we need a BlogHIM. But until then, carry the torch proudly.
I love that response. The personal blogging is so hard to categorize. I suppose in some ways being a mommyblogger is kind of a relief because it’s an easy explanation.
I generally tell people I write about stuff, and things, with tits.
No wonder I don’t have more readers.
I’m laughing at Tracy Lynn’s comment.
The idea behind this post kind of reminds me of a skit that was on The State yeeeeaaars ago. This guy was trying to find a word for someone who is a book lover, and when he gets clued into the word “bibliophile,” everything just clicks.
If you find out what the word is for us personal bloggers who aren’t moms, photographers, foodies, office crack heads, etc., do let us know.
I blog about your mom.
What?
rock on – i’m joinin the ranks of the personal blogger with no particular direction. And not much memory either… Just sayin’.
i commented and now have to go and sell some plasma so i can attend.
You’ve hit on it exactly. I’d love to have the opportunity to write regularly, and to have the input of an audience, but I have no niche. Not a mommy, not a foodie, not a late-30s dater, not anything but ME. And so where do I start and what do I say and who would really care? Other than YOUR MOM, of course.
Oh, I wish I could come see you guys! That would be so cool. And as long as I can say I blog about YOUR MOM and not my own (since she reads mine, I can’t, sadly) it’s all good.
Thanks for stopping by my blog, by the way. I was deeply honored! I have to say my trip to Vegas was the best one I’ve ever had. And that is saying a lot.
The one year I don’t go to BH and you and Jurgen do. SO UNFAIR!
Will miss seeing you.
PLEASE… Less blogging about blogging and more blogging about MY MOM… k? THX!!!
O.M.G. So excited for you! Wish I blogged enough to go! :)
Dude… I really hadn’t planned on going, but I would love to attend your ROYO.
Maybe my plans need to change…
I am so glad it took a ROYO for me to finally get to meet you!
It’s funny how people will ask “what’s your blog about?”. I usually have no clue how to answer that question. It’s random at best. I have no clue how I’d classify it, it’s blog dammit.
I hope this year’s BlogHer treats you well. Do many guys attend and if so, are they “tools” or very comfortable in their own skin?
I love that Laurie owned this, MADE IT HERS.
Also, how do so many people know my Mom??? Don’t answer that.
Lessinges, the last I was at BH there were very few dudes, but I understand that has changed in recent years, what with the hookers and blow. [that was a joke.] I think roughly 15 percent of attendees are men, which is a pretty good ratio. The men I know who are going are quite comfortable in their own skin . . . I’m pretty sure they will have a *grand* time being in the minority.
It was on being a ‘digital diarist’. Our panel in 2007 that is. Also, hey! I’m so excited you’re coming! It will make up for all of those times I pass by your house and think “hmm, I should call Kris”. Friend fail.
Someone needs to tell Nathan that the men, by virtue of their penises alone, are generally the most popular people at BlogHer.
I’d fly all the way from Switzerland to listen to you talk, Kris.
Gwen, I knew there was a good reason to like you. Look at your commitment to Kris. You’d fly across the Atlantic to hear her speak. What a nice compliment. Is Switzerland closer to DC than Seattle is to DC?