Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog

There are certain similarities about all bloggers, regardless of the community in which I find them. In Raleigh, WNCN-TV hosted its first blogger meetup Monday, and I’m happy to report that these bloggers, like those in San Francisco, Nashville, Greensboro and elsewhere, are fun folks to be around. The Raleigh bunch are bright, extremely media-savvy people who are easy to talk with and eager to be helpful.

This is often a real surprise to some traditional news people, who expect them to be (I guess) a bunch of angry and hostile guys in their pajamas. Their knowledge of the local media scene was remarkable. Who knew?

Raleigh is a part of the Research Triangle, so there are a lot of tech blogs in the area. Andy Beal, for example, calls Raleigh home, as do Wayne Sutton, Marcus Williford and Nathan Gilliatt. Stephanie is launching a blog with an upbeat tone. Rob does career help. Then there are Luther, Zoe, Chuck, Jason and Matt. Some of them showed up with ideas about possibly doing business with the station, but for the most part, it was just curious bloggers being themselves.

There were a couple of good takeaways for me. I expected them to want embeddable (is that a word) videos from the station, but I was surprised by the request for trackbacks on station stories. It makes sense, though. A lot of stations are making comments available, but I can’t think of anybody who allows trackbacks.

The station is off to a good start, because they’ve agreed to listen. They’re already planning the next meet-up, a more social-like event that will be held at a time when more bloggers can make it. I hope they’ll invite me again.

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