Perth bloggers meet up, June ‘06

Attended my second bloggers meetup last night – I had a great time and met more new folks. There were around thirteen of us there: Dee, Bret, Tama, Viv, Matt, Kay, Dave, Rachel, Rachel’s brother (sorry! forgot your name), Simone, Nic and someone else I didn’t really speak to.

My favourite comment of the night: Matt, expressing his frustration at reading print media and not being able to comment in response to inaccuracies or just to give his point of view.

Had a great chat with Rachel, and loved her vision of libraries as the information hub for communities – libraries to facilitate and provide the tech know-how, wireless, space etc for communities! I’m going to have to look out for more opportunities for Rachel to come and talk to us librarians, maybe even hook up with some of my public librarian friends. As for Family 2.0, I guess I am still very much a 1.0 in that aspect 😉

Also enjoyed chatting with Tama of Ponderance about the use of blogs in universities (still limited – at least here in the West – although judging by this article on Sydney Uni’s blogging project, blogging is probably going to get more attention in coming months – thanks K and S for the article!), MySpace and privacy, Google, and so on. Tama I hope you do set up a virtual UWA campus on SecondLife!

Skribe, Toxic Purity and JOOB, Richard and Jon you were missed!

I brought my camera, but, true to form, I forgot all about it until I was on the way home… so no pictures (sorry).

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6 Comments

Jon Y 22 June 2006

CW,

Very sorry to have missed out on the Meetup. Something popped up and I was able to get away (though I did get home in time for the Mexico vs Portugal game heheh). See you guys next month.

Jon

skribe 22 June 2006

Hopefully we can make the next one. Depends on JOOB.

Simone 22 June 2006

Yes, you two(ehh, 4) better make it next time!
Anyway, not that there weren’t enough interesting people to talk to already! Had a great time, and will definetly be there next month!

Hmm, sometimes I wish I had a private blog where I can talk about all sorts of stuff, can’t do it on the enjoyperth one, would confuse to many people!
Anyway, must concentrate on enjoyperth for now!

CW 23 June 2006

Jon, looking forward to next month 🙂

Skribe, yeh fair enuf. If you bring JOOB next time he can be the life of the meetup (in the way only babies can 🙂 )!

Simone, it was good to finally meet you! Keep blogging 🙂

Matt 23 June 2006

Hey CW,

Just checking out all the meetup peoples blogs, was great talking to others and seeing the lack of things we all have in common not stopping everyone from having a good time 🙂

Also, thanks for making my little rant sound a lot more eloquent than it was 🙂

cheerio,
Matt

CW 24 June 2006

Hiya Matt! Yes it was a good evening, and now I can say I have actually met a food blogger (apart from family 🙂 )! Hope to see you at more meetups!