BlogAsheville, MAIN, WPVM, and URTV event

Hi y'all. Sorry I had to cut out before the last drink was drunk, but this nasty cold has got my head feeling heavier than Carl Mumpower's moral compass. I'm posting this here to tell everyone to go to Cecil Bothwell's blog to read his liveblogging of the event.

I put together an email list of attendees, and I'll send y'all something soon about the future. We've agreed that something terribly organized will happen next. We'll come together to have a focused session on building a common, executable agenda within the next four weeks. It was very exciting meeting folks from all these various media who are passionately pursuing their goals. It was another great milestone in the evolution of BlogAsheville and in the growing community media sector.

We are stronger together.

Go read Cecil's post! Comment here, there, or everywhere about your impressions, ideas, and hopes for the future...

This Saturday!

Community Media come together to storm the brains and blend the circles this Saturday, Feb. 2nd at west Asheville's Rocket Club. BlogAsheville, MAIN, and WPVM are gathering to see what strange alchemy might result.

From 7-8 pm, BlogAsheville bloggers will meet with folks from MAIN and WPVM to imagine how community internet providers, community radio, and community bloggers can innovate and partner. Wally Bowen, archguru of MAIN already has oodles of interesting ideas, and he'll put some of those out for us to consider. Asheville Pizza and Brewing Company is providing some pizzas for this hour, so come if you're hungry!

From 8pm until the last conversation is conversed we'll be meeting new folks, catching up with BlogAsheville compatriots, and hanging hardcore at the Rocket Club. If things get too crowded or too noisy there, we may bail across the street to The Admiral.

It's been too long since BlogAsheville got together, and it seems crazy that MAIN, WPVM, and BlogAsheville haven't gotten together before now.

So come on out to a landmark event in Asheville's growing community media juggernaut. Intelligent, witty, well-read, media savvy, and beautiful - our community media grows, develops, and celebrates.

Asheville Bloggers - Input please.

Bloggers,

Mountain Area Information Network and 103.5 WPVM want to get together with Asheville Bloggers to meet and put our heads together. They're all about community media, and it's seems a little crazy we haven't all gotten together before now.

We're suggesting a night out at the soon-to-be-opened Rocket Club on Haywood Road, Feb. 2nd.

What do you think?