The 2009 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, beginning with the exclusive "Executive & Entrepreneur" conference on October 15th and continuing with the BlogWorld & New Media Expo and Conference October 16th-17th. This is first and only industry-wide tradesh...

Michael McDonald's highly underrated. Not that he's hurtin' for attention... regardless this song fits this entry well. As many of you know I’m somewhat of a convention gypsy—I speak at a few business/ tech conventions and conferences every year on varying topics including culture, branding, car...

I was sitting and watching the festivities today as President Barack Obama, our 44th President is sworn into office, and couldn’t help but notice that that were discussing the fact that the White House website was changed over to the new administration at 12:03 p.m. EST. They indicated that th...

Video director and new media pundit Tim Street was at MacWorld this week, where he interviewed New Media Expo founder Tim Bourquin about his recent decision to sell the NME (formerly the Podcast and Portable Media Expo) to the organizers of the Blog World Expo. The combined show will be called the B...

This will be the first time for me to do something like this for my blog. I’m not doing this because I’m just following what other bloggers are doing but rather, I’m doing this so I will have something to motivate me to do my best, improve on my strengths and work on the weaknesses...

One of our former co-hosts, David Peralty, joins us as a special guest for this episode as we discuss: WordPress 2.7 was released Microsoft enters the Open Source blogware world with Oxite New Media Expo merges with Blog World Expo WordPress Theme Repository purged of hundreds of themes Six Apart sh...

Awhile back I came across an article from PC World where they listed their Top 11 Lame Blogs. From Kim Kardashian to Wal-mart, PC World doesn’t pull any punches on their critiques of these 11 blogs. Be sure and go read what they say about them so you can either be sure to surf away from them, ...

I'm so geeked to be a part of this event coming in 2009. This time, I'm actually helping put the joint together--writing panels, promoting and—yes—recruiting panelists. It's gonna be so hot.Watch out Vegas! It's on again.I'll be writing a lot about Blog World Expo over the next 12 months... lett...

The news was not unexpected, yet somehow was still surprising when it came today. The two big (for-profit) new media conferences, Blog World Expo and the New Media Expo are combining into a new annual event, The Blog World & New Media Expo. The hybrid conference inaugural run will be at the Las ...

Two of the biggest conferences for New Media wonks and independent content producers yesterday announced a merger.  The BlogWorld Expo and the New Media Expo are merging into one “mega new media event.� I was at Blog World Expo this year,  and while I enjoyed every minute of the conference, pa...