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We’ve come a long way, baby. I guess. The world o’ blogging, I mean. At least since I was accidentally sucked into the vortex back in early 2004.<\/p>\nWe’ve come a long way, baby. I guess. The world o’ blogging, I mean. At least since I was accidentally sucked into the vortex back in early 2004.<\/p>\n
Apparently, we now even rate our own “trade show,” as the very first “Blog World & New Media Expo”<\/a> is scheduled for this week at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, where I’ve been invited to speak.<\/p>\n So what do we have to trade exactly? I’m not entirely sure, but I suppose I’ll find out this Thursday and Friday, when I’ll likely be trading barbs<\/em>, at least, on several panels in the show’s “Political Track,” along with such exemplary wingnuts as Hugh Hewitt, John Hindraker, and oh, so many more that the cat will no doubt be dragging in.<\/p>\n On the other hand, I’m happily looking forward to meeting many of the fine not-wingnut bloggers out there that I’ve known as little more than email addresses for many years. This from BlogWorld’s blog item<\/a> by the expo’s director, Rick Calvert…<\/p>\n Now I know what you are thinking. You normally wouldn’t find half of these folks hanging out with the other half and that is exactly what makes it such a great line up! One thing they can all agree on is blogging beats the MSM any day of the week.<\/p>\n Register Now<\/a> and join us for some some great discussion, some great debate and a few fireworks.<\/div>\n Panels I’ll be participating in (if I can get there in time) and at which I hope you’ll stop by if interested:<\/p>\n Thursday 11\/8, 10:15am-11:45am<\/strong> Thursday 11\/8, 2:45pm-3:45pm<\/strong> Friday 11\/9, 3:00pm-4:00pm<\/strong> The Expo’s homepage is here<\/a>, the full conference schedule is here<\/a>. Wish me luck. And please come by if you can!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve come a long way, baby. I guess. The world o’ blogging, I mean. At least since I was accidentally sucked into the vortex back in early 2004. Apparently, we now even rate our own “trade show,” as the very first “Blog World & New Media Expo” is scheduled for this week at the Convention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,26,89],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This is a great line up if I do say so myself! Hugh Hewitt<\/a>, Jerome Armstrong (MYDD<\/a>), John Hinderaker (Powerline Blog<\/a>), Jeralyn Merritt (Talk Left<\/a>), Glenn Reynolds (The Instapundit<\/a>), Joe Sudbay (America Blog<\/a>), Ed Morrissey (Captains Quarters<\/a>), Sean-Paul (The Agonist<\/a>), NZ Bear (TTLB<\/a>), Pam Spaulding (Pam’s House Blend<\/a>), Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit<\/a>), Brad Friedman (Brad Blog<\/a>), Mary Katherine Ham (Townhall.com<\/a>) Nate Wilcox<\/a>, Dean Barnett (The Weekly Standard<\/a>), Professor David Perlmutter, Michael Medved<\/a>, Roger L. Simon<\/a>, Kevin from Wizbang<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n
\nThe Power of the Political Blogosphere<\/em> – Professor David Perlmutter, Hugh Hewitt, Dave Nalle, Pam Spaulding, Taylor Marsh, Brad Friedman <\/p>\n
\nBlogging to Effect Non-Partisan Grass Roots Change<\/em> – Rob Neppell (N.Z. Bear), Brad Friedman<\/p>\n
\nPolitical Blogs and the Political Press: From Antagonists to Co-Players?<\/em> – Professor David Perlmutter, John Hinderaker, Mary Katharine Ham, Brad Friedman<\/p>\n