Was anybody still reading the feed anyway?

Just a quick automated reminder that The Perth Weblogger Meetup
Group has an event tomorrow and you said you’d be there! Here
are the details:

What: The Perth Weblogger March Meetup

When: Wednesday, March 15 at 7:00PM
Where: Little Creatures
40 Mews Road Fremantle
Perth  WA 6160
61-8-9430-5555
See who’s coming or update your RSVP:
http://blog.meetup.com/14/events/4854976/t/rem_c

Come on down. In this weather Little Creatures is the place to be, and on Wednesday nights it isn’t too busy.

Oh, something to think about — maybe we ought to move meetups to upcoming.org because it is free.  I’ve been funding the meetups for a while, and starting to think we need another funding mechanism.

We’ve shifted to Little Creatures to get a bit of Fremantle summer love after wintering on the balcony at the Brass Monkey. And we are heading for record attendance by the looks, with 10 people so far saying Yes and 5 Maybe.

People keep asking me where at Little Creatures. Out the front, probably at one of the tables on the left hand side as you had for the door.

See you there, maybe. Go on.

Does anybody still read the feeds anyway?

Also, the wiki has fully gone to the place that old web pages go to die.

And it looks like we might even have a special guest. See if you can work out who I mean on the meetup site.

See you there. Oh go on, come along you bloggers :-)

Ashleigh has started up Ashleigh’s Dump which is looking like a good blend of food, thought and the occasional rant :-)

And Indulis has started up his 21c House blog. And here’s the tagline for it:

Weblog about stuff. All sorts of stuff. More like an offboard memory for my brain. Talk to my brain now and avoid the Xmas rush.

Both well worth a read.

In his opening post, he reflects on the new shire council after the elections and ponders openness in council planning and budgeting.

Welcome to the blog world, Kim. I get the feeling that I’m going to enjoy your words a lot.

Well, rather than change to something new, us Barking Owls have stepped up to pay the Perth Weblogger Meetup fees for a bit. We’ll pay up until at least the end of the year, so we can get on with the meetings and not worry about the organising systems.

But I’m going to need some help. I’m going to be away from Perth for three months Jun-Aug, so we need to get one or more assistant organisers who are here to keep the meetings happening. Is anybody keen? If you are interested, leave a comment here. You don’t need to do much — the meetup engine does all the work inviting people and that. You only need to do something if the venue or date needs to be changed.

Anybody keen? Comment or email me… You’ll find my email address on my Links page.

This is one week earlier than normal.

Hopefully, upstairs at the Brass Monkey will be open after renovations are complete. If not, we will meet downstairs again, like last time.

This will be my last chance to get to a meetup in Perth for a bit. We are travelling for a few months around Europe. I’ll check up on the weblogger meetup scene there are report back here.

Oh, and I’ll be in Adelaide next week. I will see if there is an active weblogger meetup group there and work permitting I’ll drop in on their meetup.

There’s a redirect on the old ones, so you probably won’t even notice.

And after the meetup at Ginos a couple of us walked over to the Mint Leaf restaurant where we had a couple of glasses of Cognac and inked a rather exciting deal with the Seven Network. We’ve now committed to take part in a new reality show to be called “My Blog Rules” where bloggers from all over Perth will compete for readers and comments in a new crossover Web/TV show. And best of all there are prizes, with $1M for the best and greatest blog and endless promotional opportunities to follow. Barking Owl is going to be producing the web content part of the show with Richard Giles and The Podcast Network managing video and audio podcasts.

Exciting stuff, eh? If you want to take part, leave a comment here. Entries close at noon on April 1st. See you ON TV!

1. What about the next “blogging at the end of the earth” conference?
2. What about some special technorati/del.icio.us/flickr tags for perth bloggers to use
3. How about we have a perthblogs logo for each of our blogs?
4. I’ve arranged for the next meetup to be upstairs at the Brass Monkey in Northbridge. That will be April 20th. More from meetup as it gets closer.

Hope to see you there tonight!

– Why write a blog?
– Why do we meet up?
etc.

Should be interesting and different. Please come along if you can. Ginos, 7pm, Thursday 31st March.

Here’s the event on meetup.