On a lark one night, after reading about Chris Wage’s commitment, I signed up to attend the admittedly vague-sounding BarCamp Nashville*, even going whole-hog and signing up to speak. I’m a total follower like that. Plus, I love a good mystery, so vague is exciting for me. Double plus, I’ve spoken before at PR firms and conferences and in front of med school classrooms, so I figured I could put together something insightful that could fill twenty minutes. I’m going to talk about blogging: increasing traffic/tips on getting read, privacy issues, “How to handle trolls: Learn from my mistakes,” and some other awesome, yet to be revealed mind-blowers. All in twenty minutes. Secure your (free! woo!) drink for the ride.

I’m excited to get out and see some of my peeps from ’round the sphere-of-blogs way. The speaker list looks good, and the (barf) networking possibilities plentiful. Sign up if you haven’t yet: It’s free, you’re getting free drinks, maybe free schwag, and it’s Saturday. Not even a football season Saturday, dude.

*It has since been thoroughly explained. I think.

Blake’s take on the Nashville mayoral race coming to a head this Friday: “David Briley has probably never held a gun or a football, and he probably wants to take yours away if you have one.”

Perverting the word “activist.”

I like this tip, and should follow the advice.

Holy crap: A magazine about art blogs. How awesome is that?

So proud.