Let's get networking and socialising. A drinks gathering for bloggers in Sydney is on in The Arthouse Hotel's Gallery Bar next Friday, 12 September, from 5pm. A contraction of the words "blog" and "meet". The word "Blogmeet" is thought to have come into common usage around 2006, when Homo sapiens sapiens came to the realisation that their shared habit of reading and commenting on a blog, or Weblog, could ... Read full entry

A great wrap-up of proceedings from the Future of Media Summit by Stephen Collins. Among other things, the consensus that the "split" between professional journalists and bloggers is "artificial", emerged. The false dichotomy of the schism between the professional journalists, journalism educators and academics and the world of new media, particularly as embodied by bloggers prevails. It seems largely perpetuated by a somewhat chauvinistic attitude on the part of ... Read full entry

The Bloggers of Sydney February Meetup is on tomorrow, Valentines Day, from 7pm in downtown Sydney. RVSP for further details. If you can't make tomorrow's gathering, the The Sydney Weblogger Meetup Group, a group aimed more at commercially minded bloggers, meets next Thursday, 21 February, at the Arthouse Hotel in Sydney. And, oh yes, happy Valentines Day for tomorrow :)

Shameless self plug I know, but an interview I did for The Pakistani Spectator has just been posted. There's also interviews with a number of other bloggers for your reading enjoyment. Thanks to Ghazala Khan, of The Pakistani Spectator for organising this.

Sydney bloggers don't forget the Bloggers of Sydney Meetup Group convenes this evening in Sydney's CBD. There's still room for a few more (numbers are limited on this occasion), so if you're in town this evening RSVP, and come along for a coffee.

Bloggers of Sydney Meetup Group. Sydney bloggers listen up! Ian McLean aka "Therin of Andor" (I think Ian is a Star Trek fan ;) has recently established a new Meetup group for Sydney based bloggers. Meet and support other local Webloggers face to face instead of just online, particularly those who blog as a hobby rather than for potential profits. The first get together is slated for 24 January ... Read full entry

I've just added a couple more photos to my Flickr page, which I snapped while making an unplanned stop in the Sydney suburb of Glebe last Sunday. I'd stopped (yes - pulled over - no contravening of local laws against using a mobile whilst driving here!) to take a phone call from a friend who is in Europe, so as to end ... Read full entry

Despite the name, Career Ramblings isn't a blog entirely focussed on career development, and Californian based co-producers John Anthony and Jane May, also offer an array of what they refer to as "life in general" articles. While there is all sorts of useful information on career related matters ranging from giving your CV or resume a makeover, writing cover letters, help with completing job applications, ... Read full entry

Last October over 200,000 people visited the blog of Internet and technology entrepreneur John Chow. That's about 7000 visitors a day and the question any aspiring, or even established, blogger would be asking themselves after seeing such stats, is how? How does one person drum up that sort of interest in their blog, especially when, if you take a closer look at the web stats graph I just ... Read full entry

Combining the creative with the technical. You'll see a lot of that around here! Wordpress guy: since disassociated.com is all newly wordpressed I thought I'd point out this resource of all things wordpress. If there's some functionality you want on your WP blog then there's bound to be a WP plugin that can do the job. And Wordpress guy a.k.a. Steve is pretty adept at tracking down those ... Read full entry