Kathy said around mid-morning on September 20, 2007
We’re planning on attending SXSW Interactive in 2008 together which should be a hoot. It’s been a while since we’ve been in the same room, so a chance to get together during one of the years biggest conferences is a great opportunity. Not only are we hoping to participate on a panel but we’re planning to hopefully have a Blogging with Moxie book signing at the SXSW Bookstore as well which will be both fun and probably the basis of some good comedy. Susannah Gardner of Hop Studios submitted our proposed panel this year for Blogging Tool Death Match where a group of us will “throw down” and battle it out over the best and the worst of blogging platforms.
Blogging Tool Death Match!
Every blog project starts with the same question: Which blog platform is the right one to use? Answering this question correctly can make or break the final product. Get the nitty-gritty on each platform from experts who will defend their software choice against all challengers. Will it come to blows?
I think everyone knows what platform we’ll be defending (*cough* ExpressionEngine 4 EVA). If the panel is chosen, one of us will go up against our fine colleagues including the lovely Lisa Sabin Wilson (WordPress - she did write the book afterall), Peter Flaschner (representin’ MovableCrap...uhhh TYPE, yeah MovableType), and Paul Chaney for TypePad. Susie Gardner will be moderating the panel in case it comes to hair pulling and teeth gnashing.
It hasn’t been chosen yet, voting ends this Friday, September 21st at 11:59 pm so we need your help to vote us into the mix this year! Go! Now! Please?? I think it will be a great panel, even if it doesn’t get violent… but with this bunch, who knows. I smell controversy! 
Please go vote if you haven’t already. You’ll need to quickly register and place your vote (5 stars!!!) for the Blogging Tool Death Match panel. Search for “death match” if you lose your way. While you’re there vote for any other panels you think would make a great addition to the conference. I know they’ll appreciate it.
from San Diego, CA
Cocktail: Slighty dirty Grey Goose Martini
Word. I should post this…
from Orlando, FL
Cocktail: Cabernet Sauvignon; gallons of it.
OK… so why should I take the time and EFFORT to move from MovableType [crap] to ExpressionEngine? How difficult is it? I need sleep.
I’m sure you have better things to do, but since you did ask me [and everyone else] to vote for EE, I’d like to know if it’s super-mega-hair-pulling difficult to migrate from MT to it. Spank you.
GAH! Smileys hate me and Firefox, damn-it.
from West Palm Beach, FL
Cocktail: Champagne Bellini
@CLD: I’m not asking anyone to vote for any particular platform. I’m asking people to vote for the panel to DISCUSS the various platforms and their pros and cons at the SXSW Interactive conference. If no one votes for the panel, the panel will not even happen to debate my chosen platform. SO we need people to support the panel for it to even exist,
Capice?
But if you really want to know, it’s not hard at all. EE has a nifty MT archive import utility. Easy Peasy.
from your moms.
So I already went and voted on the panels I liked (including yours, of course)… and then I found out there’s a 90% chance I won’t be going to SXSW. Booo.
from San Diego, CA
Cocktail: Slighty dirty Grey Goose Martini
@geeky: BOO! Hiss! You should go. C’moooooooooon.... you can take pictures of us drunk and post them on the internet.
from your moms.
@Joelle: Believe me, I’d love to take blackmail, I mean drunken photos of you and Kathy! hehe But work won’t pay (budget issues) and I don’t have the cash to go on my own. :(
from your moms.
This just in! There’s a slim chance I might maybe be going after all…
from West Palm Beach, FL
Cocktail: Champagne Bellini
@geeky: Yay!!!!!! please oh please oh please oh please