Well, I went to my first meetup yesterday, for D.C. area bloggers... :) It took place at Visions, a neat sort of independent movie theater cum café near Dupont Circle.

I was a little apprehensive going into it, thinking that everyone who showed up might be "übergeeks," and it might be extremely awkward, but in fact, only the first few minutes were a bit awkward...

I showed up on time, but found that there was some college reunion going on. The place was packed with moviegoers as well. No one had signed up to be a "host" on meetup.com, so I figured it would be tough to find the others... There would be no signs or greeters. So, I just sat down conspicuously, hoping that someone would ask me what the heck I was doing there. :)

When the place started thinning out a few minutes later, someone named Jessica came over and asked me if I was there for the bloggers' meetup. It turned out that she was the girlfriend of the guy who does argmax, a very well known economics blog. We made a little sign out of a piece of paper, after which people started showing up regularly for about 2 hours... At its height there were probably about 10 people there. :)

Here are the sites of the people who showed up:

argmax
Vikram Raghavan
answerguy
quasipundit
Hradcany

It was pretty fun, and I'll probably go again the next time... It really made me understand that although blogging is taking off, many people still don't know that much about it, and although they're interested, they don't really know where to go for resources...

I'll try to help out in that respect by bringing some info with me next time. :)

[P.S.] I initially missed adding Hradcany to the list above. Must not have been written on the napkin when it passed me...