A Bloggers Dozen
Published by Yazad Jal April 13th, 2005 in Web Worldis like a bakers dozen and concerns itself with the number 13. Last Sunday’s blogger meet had 12 bloggers and 1 non-blogger. And to demonstrate the great power of blogs (or bloggers), within 48 hours, the non-blogger started blogging. Bravo and welcome to the club Chandrahas!
Here are some accounts of the blogger meet:
Arnab has a listing of the attendees (BTW, it’s Zainab, not Zainaab!)
Ravikiran grumbles about a headache (and makes me eat humble pie)
Anand of Locana had a good time (the best conversations happen during the ride home from the blog meet!)
Saket’s account reads a bit like a fan letter. (Do I come across as an evangelist? Me? I’m a nice quiet guy, right?). He also draws a list of attendees with a pithy statement on each.
Sameer and Nandan ran away to the “Brand Equity not-a-quiz” but did post their versions of the meet. Sameer, you missed the long discussion on libertarianism (could we resist with 4 cartellians present?) Nandan, a little googling can get you a lot of info on prodigies (hint: you’re right).
More power to these blogger meets, but no more noisy café coffee days please. Any suggestions for a venue next time?
PS: Calling all the cameramen to post the pics soon!
Hey Yazad,
I was actually going to mail you requesting that we hold the next blog-meet at some place other than CCD
Is being an evangelist a bad thing? Well I don’t know much of you to be frank, I wasn’t even a *regular* reader of your blog - used to visit occassionally.
I’ve met you only once so far, so I could write about you only from whatever I had seen of you.
And when it comes to explaining ideology, or arguing with a non-libertarian - IMO you do come across as a pretty powerful evangelist.
Just my thoughts ;)
Hello!!!
Will be moving to Mumbai soon, from mid-May infact. Was wondering how to go about joining the Bombay Bloggers and attend meets from May. Do help. And great work with the meet!!!
Sidin
Pictures online
Hey Sidin,
Welcome to Bombay :) Alas, yr big fan is somewhere else. Looking ahead for yr funny posts. You don’t have to do anything special for the meet. Just watch some of these blogs for the announcements and join in. I guess it’s the last Sun of every month.
look fwd to the day when accounts of Bloggers’ meets are posted “live” as they are happening. a videocam, wireless connectivity and an interest in voyeurism is all it would take!
I think we should meet at some non-capitalist place, where one can sit on the green grass, have the salty sea wind blowing through our hair and the incessant chatter of the bloggers. Sounds ideal. How about the Amphitheatre at Bandstand ? Or even the Hillock next to it?
Altaf,
Sameer and I had tried that approach in 2003. We had a bloggers meet at Dadar’s Five Gardens. The open space makes it difficult to hear people and voices trail. We decided to go to the Matunga CCD just so that we could be “closer”
How about Juhu Mocha, or the Bandra one for that matter, pretty ideal for large groups.