After a bumpy flight on a commuter plane, I’m here. Although my clock reads 1:41 p.m., it’s 12:41 in Nashville (Why is La Shawn in Nashville?). The room is very nice and the wireless Internet access is working. 
I’ve already met two bloggers. Rebecca MacKinnon and I shared a shuttle to the hotel from the airport, and Tom from Scared Monkeys greeted us in the lobby. By the way, Rebecca, a former CNN employee, was an integral part of the Eason Jordan scandal.
I’m trying to decide whether I want to head over to Belmont University now and meet everyone or wait until tonight when the blogging and journalism discussion starts. Decisions, decisions. I want to ask Glenn Reynolds why he hasn’t linked to LBC in awhile. Just kidding. Sort of.
Side note: A few readers have complained that images on the blog have been replaced by my host’s disabled hotlinking notification (big black boxes). I see the images just fine. All I can tell you is to clear your cache and refresh your browser. That might help.
I’ll see you in a bit…
Update (4:52 p.m. CST): Do you guys know about Pajamas Media? Glenn Reynolds, Roger Simon and Charles Johnson (Little Green Footballs) are putting together a news service by bloggers. As newspaper circulation is going down, this new media venture seems like an innovative way to make a run for their dwindling audience.
The bloggers are on Kudlow & Company right now. The plan is to draw advertisers to blogs, which will help lower-traffic bloggers build an audience. I sent Roger an e-mail a few days ago to join, and he wrote back and said I was already signed up. Cool. I’m still learning about this, so I don’t have a lot of informaton to give you. Michelle Malkin blogged about it this week.
I think bloggers can still sign up.
Update II (12:02 a.m.): Bloggers, bloggers everywhere! Check out The Political Teen’s (who is here, by the way) video of the Kudlow & Company segment.
I posed for pictures with Glenn (left). He’s like a rock star! Everybody was flocking around him, and no matter how much I tried to resist (I’m no groupie), I was drawn inside the circle. I’m weak.
I took a photo with Chris Muir, too. He put me in one of his strips several months ago.
It’s surreal meeting bloggers face to face. You must try it sometime. One of the disadvantages of having a photo of yourself on a blog is that people know who you are, but you have no idea who they are. From across the room strangers were smiling and waving and calling my name. “Hello? Do I know you?”
I am becoming conference queen.
