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Wednesday night, WNBC invited a bunch of bloggers to its first NYC Blogger Summit. Why? As Anil Dash put it, to "engage bloggers and encourage them to provide information and resources to the station's news-gathering efforts, in exchange for credit and exposure."
While hearing all of this was exciting and surreal and left some natural questions (see Modern Fabulousity), it was also nice to hear the word "credit" (see Gowanus Lounge) - lots of print publications are already using blogs as resources anyway. If anything, it was a formal declaration that "Hey, we read your stuff, it makes us want to be sharper, we want your perspectives" and reaffirmed that it doesn't matter what you blog about, as long as you're passionate and interested. It also reminded us of how much our own readers help us shape Gothamist, by giving us tips, ideas, photographs, feedback and more. So thank you!
Check out a list of all the other sites that were represented...or at least RSVP'd. We're just curious to see how everything evolves and glad that we got to visit the WNBC 4 news set - we totally looked for a dodgy chair! (Varsity Basketweaving had some other 30 Rock plans.)
We didn't get to chat with everyone there - not even former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who has the blog StarQuest - but that just reminds us - please join us for our fourth birthday with happy hour in the next week or so.
And last night, about half the bloggers said they don't watch the local news. That's understandable this day and age, but if there's one day of the year to watch WNBC, it's today: It's Groundhog Day, which means that Sue Simmons will be doing her annual impression of a groundhog.
Photograph from Triborough on Flickr; Triborough also has a very nice set of photographs from the summit
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God love Sue Simmons. Where would New York be without her.
Always thought "Summit" was reserved for Peace conferences. Was this one??
;)
Sue Simmons = worse than Hitler
Isn't a Summit use for peace talks?
Now go to work and give WNBC news for free. Idiots!
While you're at it, Google "Butt Bongo Dan" [Forman] ... you'll be surprised.
Always thought "Summit" was reserved for Peace conferences. Was this one??
Actually it was less of a peace conference than I would have thought. The tension among bloggers and between the bloggers and some WNBC folks was palpable at times on Wednesday.
"...former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who has the blog StarQuest"
I interviewed for a job with Stern's 'good government' organization NY Civic when it was first starting up, and the interviewer (not Stern himself) asked me "Do you have any experience working with difficult people?"
I hightailed it out of there.
i think that sue simmmons is great. others must think that as well... or she wouldn't be there 27 yrs. how could u possibly compare her to hitler????
Jen!
Nice to see you at the Summit, and thank you for the props in this link!
Rock on,
Chris Serico
Varsity Basketweaving