Chicago Blogger Dinner

Categories: Blogger Dinner, EventsPosted on September 20th, 2006

Stepped off the plane and went right to the Blogger Dinner. Felt like an idiot as I stumbled through the busy restaurant with my luggage. Found Scoble and the bloggers. We had a variety of conversations around Yahoo, Microsoft, Wireless, MySpace, Vox, Blogs, Edelman, Hitachi, pretty much anything and everything geek.

This was my first time in Chi town and having a REAL pizza pie at Girodano’s.
Present were David Dalka, Jeff Treem, Robert Scoble, Joseph Thornley (Who blogged about the dinner), Kevin Dugan, Chris Thilk, David Armano, and Mike Miller ~~one other (didn’t get his card sorry)~~. I knew this was a good group, as there was an excess of money for the tab.

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jeremiah_owyang

Owen,

Wow am I that apparent?

People call San Francisco "Frisco" and that's often a dead ringer too.

:)

Owen Lystrup

Ah authentic Chicago pizza.

Nothing beats it. Nothing beats the over-filled stomach ache either.

I could tell this was your first time in Chicago, even without you saying it.

"Chitown" gave it away.

jeremiah_owyang

You are on of us...beep beep, join the collective....beep beep.

David Armano

Jeremiah,

All along I thought I was the un-geek. But now I realize...

I am one of you.

Chris Thilk

It was so great to meet everyone in person. Sorry I had to bust out early but public transportation waits for no man.

jeremiah_owyang

David, the pleasure is ours. Guess what, the rite of passage entitles for me to call you geek.

"GEEK!"

David Armano

It was really great meeting all of you. That was my first "geek dinner". I feel like I just experienced some kind of "rite of passage"

Mike Miller

I'm the guy without the business card. Nice to meet you all last night.

jeremiah_owyang

Heh yes Michael, I just tried to pass the pizza to you and now my screen is all red! ;)

jeremiah_owyang

David

I take a lot of pics, one of the things about my Camera Strategy is that I don't have a high end camera (it's a small sony with 7.2 megapixels)

My Strategy
-Portable and unassumming, it doesn't throw off folks like some of the larger cameras
-Take a LOT of pics, and a few will turn out great (quantity over quality)
-Get close to the action: since it is smaller, It's easy to get it up to people.
-Be Brave: I'm not afraid to take pics, and just love to get close to the action!

David Dalka

Jeremiah - that is a real nice backpack, you should introduce to your friends! Why aren't a I labeled the "great pumpkin" or somethign in that picture with all the labels?

That pizza picture with Robert just rocks. Giordano's should have bought us the meal for that priceless gem. Good creativity on the one above it!!!

With how many pictures you take, someone should really send you a super high end camera so that they know all of those pictures were taken by "such and such brand camera!"

Michael Gannotti

Great site!
Came acorss this after seeing Scobles post. Keep up the good work .... and pass some of that pizza ;-)

Joseph Thornley

Jeremiah, we knew the dinner had really started when you carted all of your possession into the restaurant! ;-) I'm looking forward to your session today.