Saturday, November 03, 2007
Brighton Bloggers Meetup
We had a great meetup on Thursday, with probably 14 - 15 bloggers in attendance. Lots of chatting and drinking, and a round table discussion about what we blog about and why are we driven to do it - quite an interesting insight with a mixture of people blogging to remember, blogging to share and blogging to connect with people who may have similar interests.
Blogs represened were:
- A Place Called Providence
- Authentic blogging
- Bobbie Johnson
- Brighton Daily Photo - Dean Harvey
- Brighton Girl Geek
- BuiltByDave.co.uk, by David Stone: Freelance Developer
- Callender Creates
- glennjones.net
- Jane's work stuff
- Jane's Photography stuff
- Jane and Richard's Yak and Natter
- Jayonline Webdev Blog
- Joshua Russell | Oosh Projects
- Little Red Boat
- Presence Labs
- Rellygious Teachings
- Richard's Technical Notes
- Rosie Sherry - common sense Software Testing and QA
More photos in the flickr group.
Labels: meetup, photos, sussexdigital
Friday, November 02, 2007
Brighton Bloggers Graph
At the last meetup I produced an image containing the front page of all blogs. This time Richard produced a graph of the increase in blog numbers over the year.
He says "It was calculated by looking at the number of blog links
from the pages stored in the wayback machine, via two little
Groovy scripts I knocked up. Then thrown into NeoOffice and
Numbers."
Blog roll and photos of the meetup to follow.
Labels: meetup
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Meetup - 1st November
Local blogging educators Libby Davy & Graeme Sutherland from authenticblogging.com and blog.scouta.com will be on hand for a very short talk about the wider potential of blogging. Tell them what you might want from an advanced blogging course.
Hope to see you there. Sign up here.
Labels: meetup
Monday, October 15, 2007
Brighton Digital Festival
Labels: meetup, sussexdigital
I say YES
Yes please, because I won't be attending many of the others.
I think that actually the majority of brighton bloggers wouldn't be - although admittedly the hardcore g33k cru will be out of course :)
// posted by Relly @ 2007-10-15 19:27:56
Definitely!
- Neil.
// posted by Neil Ford @ 2007-10-15 20:08:10
Aye
Aye! Yes! Si! Ya!
// posted by Rosie Sherry @ 2007-10-15 21:22:04
Monday, July 09, 2007
Meetup Review
Another successful meetup happened last Thursday with a great mixed (in terms of technyness) attendance, and with the following blogs being represented:
1000 thoughts or less
A4istic humour
Abi Rhodes' Zigzag Wanderings
Aloe Vera for health and beauty
Blogging for Blaker's
Brighton film and music review
Brighton Stuff Shop
Down at Silicon Beach
Go 5 Ways
Jane's work stuff
Jane's Photography stuff
Jane and Richard's Yak and Natter
No Ta - NONE OF THE ABOVE
Richard's Technical Notes
Rosie Sherry - common sense Software Testing and QA
Spin Doctors Mobile Disco
Tom Hume
Wellies with Wings
and a podcast:
Not from Brighton
An evening of beer, a buffet and some discussions about blogs, blogging, as well as many other random topics.
There are more photos available here and don't forget to add your blog to the Blog collage
Labels: meetup, sussexdigital
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Bloggage
On Monday evening, in preparation for this evening meetup, I ran a script to take a screen shot of all of the Brighton Bloggers sites. These were then pulled together into one big image. I had an A3 and an A2 version with me this evening in the pub and they certainly elicited some interest.
The original, full size image, can be seen here (it's too big for flickr).
Blog roll and photos to follow in the next few days, but for the moment - thanks for coming guys, hope you enjoyed it and hope to see you at the next one!
Labels: meetup
thanks for a great evening Jane & Richard
// posted by abi rhodes @ 2007-07-08 14:25:25
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Summer Meetup
Sign up over at upcoming.
Labels: meetup
Monday, December 11, 2006
Meetup arranged - January 23rd
Sign up here, or at Upcoming.org.
Labels: meetup
Is there where I sign up?
If so then please count me in.
// posted by John King @ 2006-12-11 22:44:18
sign up?
is this how I sign up?
fred
// posted by Alan (Fred) Pipes @ 2006-12-11 22:58:31
Meet up
I'll certainly be aiming to be there so long as no work things come up between now and then.
God Bless
// posted by Carl Smith @ 2006-12-12 09:08:28
meet up
oooh, I knew nothing about a sign up. Anyways, I am planning to come along so I hope nothing messes up my plans. (I just jinxed it, didn't I?)
// posted by Colin Brooks @ 2006-12-12 09:51:55
Meetup
Thanks for the information, i have been coming to this site for about a week now and i am so glad, just wished i found it ages ago.
// posted by Brighton Hotels @ 2006-12-14 11:12:55
Coming along...
Looking forward to it!
// posted by Antony Mayfield @ 2007-01-23 08:18:53
Sunday, November 26, 2006
January Meetup
Location: In Brighton somewhere - anyone got any venue preferences? (Earth and Stars, Grand Central, Black Lion...)
Date: One of Thursday 18th, Tuesday 23rd, Thursday 25th (nothing on upcoming for any of these dates yet)
Time: From 8pm
Leave a comment below if you're interested, and what dates suit you best and I'll put the wheels in motion
Labels: meetup
January meetup
I'm all for it
In fact if anyone wants to book a room at a pub I'm happy to provide a disco free of charge
PS find another new blog at
http://a4istic.blogspot.com/
// posted by Abi Rhodes @ 2006-11-26 18:44:13
January Meetup
Count me in
// posted by Gary White @ 2006-11-26 19:46:40
january
sounds good! any of the dates is good for me! i can't think of any pubs that rent out rooms at the mo i'm afraid but i'm sure wherever will be fine. :)
what about the evening star up by the station?
// posted by amanda @ 2006-11-26 19:54:51
Sounds good
Sounds good, keep in touch about it!
// posted by Gavin Ayling @ 2006-11-26 21:10:12
Yay!
Tuesday 23rd is best for me!
// posted by Tom Hume @ 2006-11-27 09:47:17
sounds good
great idea Jane - January sounds good too, perfect post-xmas get-together planning :)
How about The Rock, in Kemptown? They have a room upstairs (it's free I think) if we need to allocate space and a fairly open plan downstairs if not...
// posted by Pete Barr-Watson @ 2006-11-27 10:30:47
Hi Jane,
Excellent, I can do any of those dates. Looking forward to it!
Jonathan
// posted by jonathan @ 2006-11-27 23:03:35
January meetup
I can do any of these dates.
// posted by Sophie Barrett @ 2006-11-28 08:49:59
january meetup
The Rock sounds good
other suggestions where I know there are good clean rooms might be
The Open House, Springfield Road
The Hanover, QPR
The Branch. London Road
How does one make a decision round here?
It needs someone to volunteer to check out possibilities, availability, prices etc
anyone up for doing this please?
Thanks for everyone's input
other sugg
// posted by abi rhodes @ 2006-11-28 09:41:49
Sounds like fun
Count me in.
// posted by Dave Child @ 2006-11-28 17:20:09
January Meet up
Meet up sounds nice, though I've only just found this place anyway. The thursday dates would be best for me...I think.
Not certain though.
// posted by Alabaster Crippens @ 2006-11-28 18:25:52
What happens next?
What normally happens with location is we find somewhere that is free :-) It doesn't have to be particularly large as at past meetups we've been between 10 and 20 people. Previous meetups have been at the Earth and Star, Grand Central, Riki Tik, Black Lion and even the Hanbury Ballroom.
I figured I'd give everyone till the end of the week to show an interest, and chose a date, and then we can get a date and a room booked.
// posted by Jane @ 2006-11-28 19:07:32
January meet up
Any of the dates are good for me.
// posted by Amy @ 2006-11-29 10:13:28
January Meetup
Me too!
I'm finally a blogger in Brighton again after a good-sized gap! (www.createdmetaphors.co.uk and www.eventyr.co.uk/ramblings.html)
I can make any of those days, but Tuesday is currently preferable (If an opinion is preferred).
Looking forward to it.
// posted by Joh Hunt @ 2006-11-30 08:59:51
Black Horse?
Count me in, any of those dates are good (thanks for avoiding Wednesdays.)
The Black Horse near the Corn Exchange seems to do a free buffet if there's a decent sized group coming, so maybe that's a possibility?
// posted by Paul Silver @ 2006-11-30 11:41:17
All those dates fine with me, and will make the difficult and dangerous journey from Seaford if you are prepared to suspend disbelief and accept that town as part of Brighton
// posted by Tom Roper @ 2006-11-30 17:25:20
finally!
Sorry it took me so long. I'd love to join you guys. I should be available for any of these dates. When a decision has been made could you please do another mail out to let us know? Thanks!
// posted by Colin Brooks @ 2006-12-03 17:38:45
Top idea!
The room above the Earth & Stars would be okay. I'd prefer somewhere in the middle of Brighton & Hove rather than in the outskirts (Kemp Town) ;)
// posted by John King @ 2006-12-03 22:57:59
Tuesday 23rd
So its looking like it'll be Tuesday 23rd January, I just need to sort out the location - I'm following up on the Black Horse link from Paul at the moment as the idea of free food is good...
// posted by Jane @ 2006-12-04 21:54:11
january meet
so do you folk wanna disco?
// posted by abi rhodes @ 2006-12-05 10:43:45
January Meetup
Though a blogger relatively new to Brighton I and my also-blogging other will be there whichever day it is, probably, bcause it sounds like fun.
// posted by anna @ 2006-12-06 16:02:10
