Capacity Crowd at the London Bloggers Meetup
I recently took up the mantle of organising the London Bloggers Meetup Group and we had the first session last night. I have to admit I was a little apprehensive before hand, but it seems I shouldn’t have been as it went really well!
I was a little surprised by the interest on Meetup and even more surprised by how many people actually turned up. It seems blogging is no longer a past time for geeks, more a mainstream medium for fantastic people to wax lyrical, or for talented illustrators (see Blog Mouse below) to pick up book deals, or photographers to write about their passions, or for expats to stay in touch with the folks back home, or probably for most of you reading this, a source of making money. In fact you could say it was quite a colourful bunch who turned up - a representation of the rich tapestry of the blogosphere.
Blog Mouse by Alex Milway
If you want to check out some of the bloggers who came along you can find most of their URLs below. Sorry for those who are missing or if I’ve mispelled your details - drop me an email and I’ll happily correct them.
I learnt some really interesting stuff last night. For example social review sites like Qype and We Love Local are the next big thing coming to a town near you soon. Most encouragingly I found that the blogosphere still has an awful lot of potential for whatever you want to make out of it - money, friends, a career, whatever. It seems there’s also still money to be found for online and Web 2.0 ventures for anyone that’s looking for funding.
A special thanks needs to go out to We Love Local’s Dan Bower who helped a great deal in getting the word out about the meetup. So, Dan, thanks! Hope you like the photo..
Well anyway, here are the bloggers that turned up:
Peter Marshall
Mark McLellan and Gullible’s Travels
Katie Lee and Gemma Cartwright of Shiny Media
Rob Hinchcliffe (founder of Londonist)
Dan Bower, Helen Evans and Max Jenninsg of We Love Local
Cate Sevilla and Dolly Mix TV
Stuart Waterman and My Chemical Toilet
Mirona Iliescu’s Gorgeoux
Tim Dickinson’s Plummet Onions
Keith Brand’s Housing Panic
Bronwen Dekke’s Work Blog
Alex Milway
Jonathon Melhuish
Oliver George
Improbulus
Chris Jackson
Iain Buchanan
Andrew Bulhak
Thanks to everyone who came along last night, I hope you enjoyed yourselves.
For anyone that’s interested, there will be a Christmas Meetup on December 18th. More details are on the Meetup page where you can also find a few more photos from last night. The groups open to everyone and anyone who blogs.
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Wow. Blogging is really taking off in London. The same can be seen with the conventions for bloggers in New York City. This is really healthy for the internet.
It really was a great night Andy, with any luck I’ll be at the next too and be able to help out again.
I’m not 100% on the picture, but thanks anyway!
I agree, U said good and right Andy. good comment.
Wow.. Nice meeting. I wish I could be there…. I really missed it.
I am also agree with Andy that is a nice comment.
sounds like an interesting meeting.
This is to show that people who were panicking over the idea that computer and the internet will be the end of human contact and “face-to-face” interaction were deadly wrong.
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I like the iconograph,very enjoyable.