This will be my final post from the BlogHaus, at about 11:00 am on Wednesday. It’s been great. Now sitting here with Tom Hawk of Zooomr and Andru Edwards of Gear Live and some of his people, who are all busy publishing. (Tom told me he won’t make his 1000 photo upload goal, but he’s halfway there. He only uploads really, really nice pix, though. Somebody else just said there are 30,000 photos now up in Flicker tagged CES 2007. Yikes! I did a bunch myself, mostly of the BlogHaus.)
Had a great time last night at the Blogger Business Summit party — met a lot of interesting folks. Then back to the BlogHaus, which was going at full capacity, Robert Scoble holding court in one corner, pizza in another. And lots in between. One new person I met was a guy who’s launching the first trade show for the the blog world….called, guess what? BlogWorld! Sounds like a serious endeavor, from a guy who’s run lots of successful shows — Rick Calvert is his name. It’s scheduled for November — in Vegas! Don’t know if there’s a site up yet, but looks like it’ll be at www.BlogWorldExpo.com.
Anyway, I’m going off to some other business soon here, then heading for the airport about 3:00. Just picked up all my email, and learned I missed the cut for a lunch with Guy Kawasaki in Minneapolis on the 19th, before his big talk at the U of MN. Apparently there were only 7 slots at the table, and my friend Gary Smaby tried to get me on the list, but too many muckety-mucks already, I guess… 🙂 [Thanks for trying, anyway, Gary.] But I’ll sure be there for the talk following, which is already sold out.
Guy should be very happy the temps are finally dropping in Minnesota (lows below zero this weekend, I hear) — because, as you may recall, what got him to our state in January was the National Pond Hockey Championships, which are held on one of our city lakes. And people were getting real nervous they wouldn’t have ice, with our temps hovering around 40 for so long. Sounds like the ice will be real hard by the time Guy gets here! Anyway, looking forward to seeing Guy again, hearing his talk, and seeing him play hockey.
Cheers from Vegas! It was a good trip…
Tags: BlogHaus, PodTech, Zooomr, Flickr, Gear Live Media, Guy Kawasaki, Gary Smaby, pond hockey
planned my morning so I’d get up real early and do a few hours of email and writing for my blog (it was way too cold to surf, anyway), then pack up and head north from my place in San Clemente to catch Guy’s keynote speech at 12:30. It would be a short drive from there to the airport, I figured. Well, I rushed and rushed and barely made it to the conference’s press room right about the appointed time, only to find out his speech had just ended! Apparently, they’d moved up the schedule. Darn, I’d missed it! Since I’d never actually met Guy — though I’d heard him speak a couple of times, and was instrumental in getting him to speak at a large technology event in the Twin Cities several years ago — I was bound and determined I was actually going to meet him this time (which circumstances had prevented me from doing previously). So, off I tromp, over to the Marriott, where I figured he might still be hangin’ around afterwards talking to folks. And, sure, enough, as I’m walking in and down the hall toward the meeting rooms, here comes Guy right toward me, carrying his briefcase, big smile on his face, slowly starting to make his way for the door. So, I introduced myself, and we had a nice chat as he walked together back to the lobby. After explaining that we had a common friend in Rich Karlgaard, I asked Guy what he spoke about (“the Art of the Start”), and how many were in the audience (200, he was told — many of them entrepreneurs launching businesses to market to boomers). I also asked him about his blog….of course! He seemed like he wasn’t all that impressed with his “gross numbers” so far. So, I asked how many visitors he gets, and he said, “Oh, I have about 10,000 readers.” I said, hey, that’s great. Then, I wished him luck, said I’d catch him somewhere else soon, and we both split. But at least I don’t feel so bad now about my 2000 readers last month. Gee, a fifth of the way to Guy Kawasaki — I’ll take that any day! Guy’s blog, by the way, which he just launched January 1, is 
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