A whole ballroomful of women giving one another love, following the Community Keynote at the BlogHer conference in San Francisco, July 18-20, 2008.

If I thought I’d have to stuff all my observations (and raves, and epiphanies) about this past weekend’s BlogHer conference into one post, I’d never be able to actually write it.  As it is, I’ve had the durndest time even getting this far.  There was just so dadgum much to take in, so much to digest.  

And I am mindful, too, that blogging about blogging and bloggers talking about blogging can be a bit, oh, tail-chasey.  Even for bloggers themselves, or blog readers with a high tolerance for blogular self-referentiality.  I could cue those who aren’t so interested to nod off, and promise you I’ll wake you up at the appropriate moment.  Which is NOW!

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I have been poring over the responses a number of you provided over this past week, when I extended an extended question about “Mommyblogging.”  I’ve been intrigued, fascinated, educated. Also, I’ve felt more and more like I wanted to convey back to you some kind of summary, highlighting your thoughts, rather than go on myself.  

Sadly, I’ve not had the time to do either your thoughts or mine near enough justice. At the very least, though, I want to provide a little overview of the most easily conveyed stuff.  Until I can make that time,  I encourage you to peruse the more open-ended answers to the questions here (password is “LDsurveyresults” sans quotation marks).  Whenever you see that little icon that says “view,” basically click on it and discover the wealth of really rich insight folks shared.  By the way, there were 60 responses. Not too shabby, maybe even statistically significant. Whatever that means.

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[Above: the old, with which we are now out.  Replaced by the new, with which we are now in.]

Ever since we had a second kiddle, I’ve always felt a bit sad that he wasn’t given any face time in the old header photo (sorry, Att). You know, because I know this would be among the kinds of things he would be lamenting with a therapist in a coupla decades. Wasn’t in his Baba’s blog header, back then when people were doing that “blogging” thing.

And then there was the Great Spam Attack of ’08, which sent heiroglyphics and more all over the place. It was time to update the WordPress installation.

Then there was my longstanding desire to foreground the conversation that goes on around here, with some kind of cue on the home page. And so on and so on.

Like with every remodeling job, push led to shove and then I realized I needed a whole new shebang, a shebang which definitely exceeded my modest web literacy. I know as much HTML as I do Spanish, which spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E in any language. After harassing chums for help, a dear one fronted the means by which I could consult professionals. And so LD v.2.0 began gestation.

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