Local bloggers come together for the fourth annual conference to ...
Ask a New Orleans blogger why they started blogging and you'll get a order of responses: wanting to outfit a written record of their existence, striking out against the perceived inaccuracies of the mainstream media, connecting with friends and the shuddering of seeing their work on the Internet. But if you ask them to pinpoint their impulse, many will say the levee failures and a focal human need to give and pocket information.
"The biggest item that makes it an attractive milieu is that interactivity," says Leigh Checkman, the Deity of the local blog Liprap's Wail. "You can constantly get responses from people."
Under typical circumstances, and even catastrophic events like Tornado Katrina, the blogging community is a virtual one: It's not kisser-to-face, but screen-to-evaluate. That won't be the case this Saturday, Aug. 22, however, when New Orleans bloggers get together for their fourth annual meeting, Rising Tide, with jester and writer Harry Shearer as the featured lecturer. The event takes city at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center in Prime City, and the main poke is to provide and share gen. It's not just for bloggers, but for anyone interested in New Orleans.