Tech Review

Sorry, I only have a 512MB SD card so I had to prioritize.

I conducted an experiment at the Blog World Expo this pre-weekend: I acted as obnoxiously as humanly possible and noted the amount of time it took for people to excuse themselves from my presence.

Methodology:

I hung around the booths- insulting people's template colors, asking them to hold my coffee while I blew my nose, and discussing at length my plan to solve the interstate water-sharing dilemna.

Follow up:

Conclusion:

I'm shocked to report that with the exception of Glenn Reynolds, (Instapundit ) who excused himself during my verbal listing of MySpace friends, the entire Pajamas Media contingent tolerated me. Other PMers:

1. I spent most of my PM time with Aaron Hanscom and his lovely wife Maria. Aaron is a former teacher who writes here. Maria is a Spanish immigrant. Both were a pleasure to talk to.

2. Stephen Green was not only the best dressed man at the conference, but a great conversationalist. Nice camera too.

3. At the conference, Matthew Burden from Black Five invented what's sure to be the next big thing, "dead blogging."

4. Sybilla Nash gave me a warm greeting despite being very busy trying to run things.

5. I had an interesting conversation with Cheryl Taragin from The Spewker right before she partook of a free massage.

The Pajamas Media Massuese.

6. Ed Driscoll: Very polite. Smart man.

Had I known I'd be publishing my findings, I would have written down more names. I hope it suffices to say that all of the PMers were very nice.

Some others I met:

-Ed Jenks of Symblogogy (rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?). He has a blog on barcoding technology. I was going to start a barcoding blog, but Ed beat me to it.

-The diminutively cute founder of I am Petite, a blog for petite women. I learned that to qualify as petite, one has to be under 5'4." According to my wife, however, there's a horizontal dimension to petiteness as well i.e., iampetite.com won't be logging too many hits from Rosanne Barr.

-Kithbridge's Rob Neppell whom you may know as the guy who started Truth Laid Bear. Obviously, a smart guy.

-Hugh Hewitt. What can I say? A great guy. He spent time talking to a group of us part-timers.

-Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of the Daily Kos. He was nice enough to take a picture with me. I'll just say that he's an impassioned seminar attender and has a nice Mac laptop.

-Monica Showalter of Investor's Business Daily. While we were attending the seminar, my post on Cuban cockfighting came up. She was ready to complain to Babalublog before I explained that it was just a joke.

-Two wonderful military spouses from SpouseBUZZ.

-Uncle Seth and Noble from Political Vindication. Again, great people.

-Dean Barnett of Soxblog. I told him how he's the only replacement host I listen to. He thanked me.