Seattle Bloggers Unite

Posted on August 25, 2005

The Seattle Times reports that Seattle bloggers have joined together to form the Seattle Weblogger Meetup Group. The Times says it may be one of the largest groups of its kind in the world. The Seattle Weblogger Meetup Group currently has 329 bloggers as members including Jake Metcalf; Jack William Bell and group organizer Anita Rowland. The group provides monthly meetings for the bloggers and the Times says the bloggers find this non-virtual contact helpful.

With 328 members in and around the city, this group (blog.meetup.com/1) eclipses its counterparts in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston, London and Tokyo. It's bigger than the group in New York City.
It just goes to show that however much they like putting their thoughts online, Seattle bloggers also crave face-to-face contact with like-minded people.
"The meetings are a good way of telling yourself that you are not nuts and there are other people that are obsessed with creating and sharing content online," said Metcalf, who's been blogging 8bitjoystick.com since May 2002.
While some sites get just a handful of loyal followers, Metcalf reports that more than 9,000 comments have streamed in for the more than 1,500 articles he's penned. Video-game companies have been known to keep an eye on his game reviews. "Birds of a feather get together to rant about RSS I guess."

The article also says Seattle bloggers can be found at another Seattle blogging group called Metroblogging Seattle and at a director of Seattle blogs called Seablogs. Seattlest also blogs about the city and has other Seattle blogs on its blogroll.