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Side note: A few readers have complained that images on the blog have been replaced by my host’s disabled hotlinking notification (big black boxes).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.
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Your picture is gone, LaShawn, which is a shame…but the rest are there!
Dan
I moved it to the “About” page.
Have a great weekend at the convention La Shawn.
One of my favorite cities. Attended a conference at Fisk last May, and an NCAA Men’s basketball tourney round there in ‘03. Love trolling the clubs and stores on 6th St. near the Gaylord Center. Get some pancakes at the Pancake Pantry LB.
Can’t wait to hear more Lashawn! I might just sign up. Sounds very interesting.
I miss seeing your smiling face whenever I open up your page. It was like you were the hostess standing at the door, smiling, inviting us into her site. Have a great time!
I must now prostrate myself upon entering LB’s site. All Hail the Great Queen!!!
Keep up the great work.
I see the big black boxes and no formatting, and I have used two different browsers (Firefox and IE, and I have flushed the cache, but still the problem.
I have also looked at it with four different anynomous browsing web sites, and got the same thing.
Hey, when is the D.C. BlogCon? That’s my big question!
Same here (re Don Singleton’s comment above). La Shawn, we’re sorry, your suggestions aren’t helping. I think you need to get in touch with your web host and find out what’s going on.
I just contacted the host, so the problem should be taken care of soon.
Congratulations! Rock Star Glenn Reynolds got to be in a picture with LaShawn Barber! Lucky man! Enjoy the conference and keep on blogging–a much better slogan than keep on trucking!
Still only black boxes here, NC, 11:23 pm.
Ms. Barber, I hope that you are doing well. I came upon your website sometime during the last presidental election. I added it to my favorites and i check it out every now and then. I am a 47 year old black male, truck driver by trade. I have two kids, ages 31 and 22 years old. My daughter dropped of college after 2 years. My son is currently attending collge about to graduate. I am proud of both of them, I think they will succeed in life. My question to you is, do you think that Jesus was white or of color? I ask you this question, because the bible is suppose to be about truth. When I was in the US Army stationed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL, I came upon a book written in the 1800’s, I forget the author. The author was a minister of that period, the subject was Cain and the curse of black people. I think you have heard that argument before. So since 1979 when I read that book, I have searched for the answer about Cain, I think I found the answer. It never made since, that Jesus was white, walking in the desert, with blonde hair and blue eyes and pale skin. I finally came upon the most likely answer. Let me quote Ms. Catherine M. Livers from her book Biblical History of Black Mankind, Chapter 2, page 7, “As Chritians, we believe that the word of God is inerrant in its original Hebrew and Greek context. The prophets of God wrote the words as God breathed upon them. All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of god may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (II Tim. 3:16 NIV}. God is not a man that He can lie. Our lack of faith in God’s word will not nullify the truth. Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge” {Romans 3:4 NIV}. Many Christians would probably shun the ethnicity of Adam as unimportant. Are we God’s judge? The book of Genesis was written by Moses as God breathed upon him and revealed His truth to him. All that God has inspired to be written is important. He is not the author of frivolous work. If he did not want mankind to know Adam’s ethnic identify, He would not have revealed it to Moses and inspired him to write it.” This is from the back cover of her book ” C. McGhee Livers is a sought after teacher and translator of the Greek and Hebrew Biblical languages. She has taught these languages at several colleges. As she began translating the 4000 year old Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament into English, she found astounding truth concerning the origin and destiny of mankind. These truths are recorded in this book, Biblical History of Black Mankind. Liver’s credentials have earned her a place among the most influential individuals in the United States. Her achievements are published in Marquis 2003 Who ’s Who in America, the leading Biographical reference publisher of the hightest achievers across the country and around the world. I find it interesting that no one has come forward to challenge Ms. Livers. Have you read her book, or are you aware of her? I look forward to hearing from you, your homework assignment is to read her book if you have not read it. Or if you have read it, to comment upon it. I can’t wait for your response. In closing, let get to the truth. Thank you Fred.
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