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BlogHer '06: I may touch you inappropriately

I just arrived in San Jose for the BlogHer conference (it starts tomorrow), and I'm filled with 80% excitement and 20% apprehension. I'm going to be meeting people I admire for their talent, creativity and nerve -- people I've never seen before but consider friends. I can't imagine another situation in which I could say that and mean it.

If you're here at BlogHer, please find me and say hi, and don't be surprised if I squeal and throw my arms around you. You've been warned. If you're one of those "personal space" types, you may want to wave at me from across the room.

Technorati Tags: BlogHer

FM Parenting metablog

FM, the company that serves up the graphical ads for Parent Hacks, represents quite an illustrious pool of parenting bloggers. As such, I was rather excited when they told me about their plan for a parenting "metaweblog." The metablog would give a quick glimpse of what's happening on the blogs in FM's parenting federation with excerpts of the week's best posts.

I was even MORE excited when they asked me to edit the thing.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you... www.federatedmedia.net/parenting

So now, in addition to my duties at Parent Hacks, I'll also be flexing my formidable editorial muscles on the FM Parenting metablog. (More accurately, I'll be excerpting posts from blogs whose feeds I already read. Sweet.) Here's the roster, with more blogs on the way:

• Amalah
• Celebrity Baby Blog
• DadCentric
• Dooce
• Finslippy
• Laid-Off Dad
• Paper Napkin
• Parent Hacks
• Suburban Bliss
• The Mommy Blog
• Dad Gone Mad

I'm honored to be part of (and now working with writing produced by) such a talented group -- I've admired several of these blogs since before Parent Hacks was a twinkle in TypePad's servers.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Federated Media, Parenting

Getting serviced

I'm sitting in the waiting room of the local quickie oil change shop. I opened my PowerBook, hoping to mooch off a neighborhood wi-fi connection while my car gets its well-deserved spa treatment. Up popped the following system message:

None of your trusted wireless networks can be found. Would you like to join the open wireless network named "I'll suck your dick"?

I clicked Yes. That's right, folks. I'm at Jiffy Lube getting serviced for free from an open network named "I'll suck your dick."

This is why blogging was invented.