Nerding Out with WCCO

Tonight I had the pleasure of attending the first evar WCCO sponsored bloginar (it's like a webinar, only less annoying and probably more nerdy) at the Freight House Dunn Bros in DT Minneapolis. Even though I'm not a big time blogger (even though I love every one of my roughly 50 readers more than Camel Special Lights), I thought it would be a fun way to meet new people and to heckle Jason DeRusha (yes, I will stalk you if you want). Pics of the event:

Max hides from my papparazzi tendendies


The Blogger Mafia tends to only network with each other


"There are no adult beverages here. I disapprove."


For some reason, Jason's facial expression delights me. I can't pin down why.


Getting ready to listen to the speakers:


According to Brandi, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio are where dreams go to die:


Jason telling the crowd that he wishes he had stalkers


At the end of the Q&A, Dan from WCCO's sales department did a quick pitch about their online add network for bloggers (of which I was rejected). This was also the part of the night where I had my own little FTW moment.



One of the speakers made a comment about allowing blogs with "edgy content" take part in the program, to which we all turned to look at Jeremy (mysteriously rejected as well), but he was apparently in the restroom. To which I threw out this little gem: "He's downstairs creating some 'edgy content' as we speak." I SLAY ME!!!!!

Anyway, I learned way more than I really needed to know about citizen journalism and the tension between traditional and new media, but it was cool to do something in Minneapolis that didn't involve sitting on a patio, drinking beer, and gossiping.