Moral quandary
What to do, what to do.
This is the first time I've ever been asked to speak at an event I couldn't afford to attend. It's also proof positive that if you blog long enough, you'll eventually end up on a panel with Wonkette. Or at least be a speaker at the same event as she.
On the plus side, I and fellow citizen-journalism evil genius Susan DeFife of Backfence.com (more info on her here) will be quizzed, the way James Lipton does it on "Inside the Actors Studio," by Dan Gillmor, author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People," for an audience of a couple of hundred people who will be paying close to $700 to be there (many of whom will be liveblogging the event). He had a conversation with N&R staffers and some local bloggers back in February, and a good time was had by all, so it should be fun. I'd love to stay for the whole thing -- and would love even more to spend some extra time in New York catching up with old friends -- but that's two days before ConvergeSouth, so I'll probably just do an Ed and fly up and back the same day.