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title: "Take Me Out to the Blog Game"
description: "America is calling. If I was rich on time and in the pocketbook, here are the upcoming blog conferences I'd like to attend: Blog Business Summit in San Francisco, August 17-19. $895. I attended this..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2005/08/03/take-me-out-to-the-blog-game/
date: 2005-08-03
modified: 2005-08-03
author: "Monique"
type: post
lang: en
---

# Take Me Out to the Blog Game

America is calling.

If I was rich on time and in the pocketbook, here are the upcoming blog conferences I’d like to attend:

(http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/) in San Francisco, August 17-19. $895. I attended this conference last year and thought it was great. I met (http://www.darrenbarefoot.com), whose blog I’d been reading for months. Darren is also a speaker at this year’s conference.

I met (http://www.hopstudios.com), who I share interesting publishing ideas with, and all the blog gods like (http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/).

Janet Johnson from (http://www.marqui.com) is also a speaker–Janet who I recently met at the (http://www.somisguided.com/index.php/weblog/sfu_future_of_publishing_conference/) session.

(http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/speakers.htm) But August … things are gearing up in the publishing world and I’ve just received my security/tracking ankle cuff, the latest chained-to-your-desk innovation. Sadly for me, I will not be able to attend.

Instead my hopes are set high for Number 2, (http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon2005/) in New York City Oct 17-18. $1095. I’m going to start lobbying the powers that be now … New York here I want to come. I recall at BookExpo America there were all sorts of bloggers who came out of the wood work. Cool people. I want to be there. The campaign starts today.

Any others I should know about?