In spite of the short notice for a meet-up, the turnout and conversation at last evening's WKRN gathering of Nashville bloggers was wonderful. Mix in an opportunity to meet Amanda Congdon of rocketboom.com fame (and more recently AmandaAcrossAmerica) and you have a formula for an interesting experience (not that all meet-ups aren't interesting...this one just seemed especially so).
The AmandaAcrossAmerica site raises the bar for vblogging (video blogging)... it also demonstrates what a team effort can pull together as a model for similar projects. Note to Spring Semester, Electronic Practicum students in Media Studies: start taking notes on AmandaAcrossAmerica now.
The award for making the best of Amanda's Nashville vist goes to Blake Wiley Wylie who spent several minutes of on-camera interview time with the touring video blogger. In spite of appearances in this picture, Amanda was all smiles... and Blake may have to have the grin on his face surgically removed. Blake will probably have his video interviews online before the day is over...it's a tough editing assignment, but someone has to do it *smile*.
Thanks News2, Mike, Mike, and Brittney for hosting the evening! Now that I have confessed to my corporate-blogging-for-money project, maybe I can get back on the Nashville is Talking blogroll again...I might even blog more often here, who knows!? It was good to see the nocturnal branch of the Nashville blogosphere again.