Considering the Mesh Meetup was last Wednesday (Nov 15) and I’m only writing about it now, proves that I am the world’s slowest blogger. In contrast, Stuart MacDonald beat not only me, but probably everybody else to the “posting punch” a la Blackberry a mere 3 hours and 44 minutes into the meetup.
My friend Paul Andersen and I headed over to the Irish Embassy around 6pm to sample the Mesh crowd and meet some of my favourite Toronto bloggers. I passed on Mesh last year, a mistake I won’t make again given the personalities and calibre of the people I met at this event. The next Mesh (Mesh 2007) is being held in Toronto on May 30/31, 2007 at the MaRS Collaboration Centre.
I could only stay a couple of hours and kicked myself later for not blocking off the whole evening in my calendar. As a result, although I got to meet the blogging favourites: Rob Hyndman, Mathew Ingram, Mark Evans and Stuart MacDonald, I ran out of time before I could really get to know the rest of the crowd.
Before I go, I have to mention a few people: Maggie Fox from Social Media Group, Jian Ghomeshi, Host for CBC TV (apparently I’m living in a bubble because I’m only person who didn’t know Jian) and Dr. Tony “Trust me, I’m a Doctor” Hung from Deep Jive Interests.
I’d also like to mention that Tony has in my opinion, won this event’s best business card contest with a very humorous 1″ x 4″ masterpiece that says “trust me I’m a doctor” (He really is), with a close 2nd place awarded to Mark Evans, VP Operations at b5media for having a card that has the words “kick ass” on it.
I dream of a day when I can write profanities on my cards. :)
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