Bloggers of the Hub, unite! (And bring your toys to dinner)

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Mary?? You forgot the group's website. Here, I found it for you on Google in 3 seconds - http://blog.meetup.com/3/

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/20/bloggers_of_the_hubunite_and_bring_your_toys_to_dinner/

Bloggers of the Hub, unite! (And bring your toys to dinner)
By Mary Bridges, Globe Correspondent | February 20, 2005

From the bartender's vantage point, it looked like any dinner party: a dozen people sitting down at a long table with menus and silverware, peeling off heavy coats, and moving tables to accommodate latecomers. The minister from the suburbs greeted the event planner from Somerville, who introduced herself to the video producer from Jamaica Plain. Except that, for the most part, the people at the table were strangers. The meeeting was a kind of group blind date organized through a website and arranged around the one trait all members shared: an interest in blogs.

Known as the Boston Weblogger Meetup, the gathering convenes on the last Monday of every month. Though they've been meeting at different restaurants since 2002, the size and formality of the meeting vary each time. What makes the Weblogger Meetup unusual is that it translates cyber connections into real-world encounters, in this case, a dinner at Christopher's Restaurant & Bar in Porter Square.

Boston offers at least one other blog group, hosted every Thursday at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Dunn attends both and has found the meetups to be a ''casual alternative" to the focused, agenda-driven Thursday group.

But the casual chit-chat got off to a rocky start this night. There were no signs to point people to the back corner of the restaurant and the table hidden beneath TV screens showing a Celtics game.

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