Re: Blog Summit

The discussion of the WisPolitics/WisOpinion Blog Summit is pretty good, but so far it's fallen a few feet short.

First, we're bloggers - if there's one thing we're all about, it's that we don't simply accept the status quo.

So what is anyone doing about the oversight of (stictly Wisconsin, mainly blogger) celebs? Why would being critical of the current status of the Summit have any bearing on our efforts in shaping and support of it, let alone our attendance?

This event has the potential to become an important networking, teaching and PR tool. Who would want to throw that baby out with the bathwater? Face it, you're all a bunch of attention-seeking geeks who like to prattle on about the esoteric things you're interested in, and crave the company and attention of similarly driven people. Hence, the WisPolitics/WisOpinion Blog Summit, just for you.

Second, what argument can you make for Sean or Fred or anyone here to be on those panels? Sure they could, but so far the argument is example-free, other than how long certain people have been bloggers (besides the points Sean made on his own blog).

If someone from the WisPolitics/WisOpinion folks visited the BBA, would you have persuaded them to add some of the deserving bloggers here, or would you have sounded like a bunch of thin-skinned, whiny crapweasels? ;-)

Remember, this is a blog, not a private conversation. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal could very easily write an article on this, quoting that we thought "we common folk just aren't sexy enough for a summit I guess."

PS: Tough love, as taught to me by Charlie Sykes.