“Are you going to blog about this?” was the most frequently overheard comment at the Town Fryer on Saturday, July 22. As plates of red beans and rice and many beers were consumed, dozens of bloggers and blog readers were putting faces to screen names at the first Bloggapalooza.
Organized by Cleveland-area bloggers George Nemeth (brewedfreshdaily.com), Scott Bakalar (wordofmouth.blogspot.com), and Tim (timferris.blogspot.com) and Gloria (gloriaferris.net) Ferris, Bloggapalooza gave people who’d engaged in spirited online debates the chance to do the same in person, while enjoying performances by bands, rappers and poets.
The event’s official excuse was the one-year anniversary of Meet the Bloggers (meetthebloggers.net), which invites political candidates to sit down at a local coffeehouse for in-depth interviews. Nemeth’s big announcement of the day was that MTB had finally snagged Senate candidate Sherrod Brown for an August 12 interview; Congressman Brown had cancelled a scheduled January date over an altercation with one of MTB’s founders.
— Anastasia Pantsios
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