On the opening night of Blog World Expo in Las Vegas, Zappos hosted a party at Prive (at Planet Hollywood). Half way through the evening Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh introduced Judson Laipply – the dude who is internet-famous for his YouTube “Evolution of Dance” performance that is almost at 100 million views. Judson, who was [...]

I’m interested in hearing the discussion in the following session, “How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets“, with Rick Calvert (CEO and Co-Founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo), John Chow, Patrick O’Keefe (founder and owner of the iFroggy Network), and Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney. I’m familiar with trolls and spammers although I [...]

The past two days have gone by quickly here at Blog World in Las Vegas. I’ll have a more reflective post up during my layover in Phoenix later in the day since there’s still quite a full schedule of sessions for today. This morning’s keynote will feature Rohit Bhargava, Timothy Ferriss (from 4 Hour Work [...]

After banishing myself to the back of the room, since this is the only place I can plug in to power my MacBook, I’m all setup again for the “Bloggers and PR” session with Chris Brogan, Michael Clark, Jason Falls, and Brian Solis. Update: It’s been announced that the Twitter hashtag for this session is [...]

There are currently 10 sessions going on at once as well as the tradeshow. I may need to clone myself about 4 times over in order to cover everything – although I’m not even going to try. I am interested, however, in the Citizen Journalism track so the next two live blogs will be on [...]

After the keynote attendants of BWE rushed the traderoom floor here at the Las Vegas Convention Centre to learn about the latest companies, plugins, tools, and to scoop up some swag. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the businesses I learned about within the last half hour: Zemanta: While you’re blogging (compatible with WordPress) [...]

This morning’s keynote is a “state of the blogosphere address” with Chris Alden and Anil Dash of Six Apart, and Richard Jalichandra of Technorati. Update: I’m just checking out the live feed of Twitters. Not sure where the blogs are being aggregated from, but I like this concept – and now I have about 35971 [...]

With so much going on this week, and next, my trip to Vegas has crept on me awfully fast. In about 72 hours I’ll be on a plane heading to Sin City for the world’s largest blogging conference, thanks to my readers and DreamBank. Photo credit: Duane Storey on Flickr Unfortunately John won’t be able [...]