Last night I had the good fortune to attend a Miami bloggers' holiday party at the Tuscan Steakhouse, hosted by the urbane and charming Gus Moore of Miamibeach411.com.
Miami has a diverse and vibrant local blogging scene of which, given my more varied interests, I am only a vestigial part, so I appreciate very much being included along with local giants such as Miamibeach411.com (now a very numerous gang indeed) and Stuck on the Palmetto, which turns out to be a written by some smart adverting guys in their spare time, and not by moonlighting frustrated city planners as one might have imagined.
Other blogs represented included:
* Ipanemic
* Sex and the Beach
* Miami Rhapsody
* All Purpose Dark
* Dan Renzi (he's apparently famous for something)
* Fanless (warning: will hurt your eyes)
* Blenderlaw
* Miami Condo Investments (two guys, suprisingly upbeat)
* Miami Vision Blogorama
* A Mom, A Blog and the Life In-Between (the same person also does a Coral Gables Blog and another I didn't catch).
* South Beach Real Estate Blog
* Burnett's Urban Etiquette
* Miami Fever's Photos (a flicker stream)
* Restaurant Gal
No sign of Greener Miami though.
I am not good at circulating at crowded parties, and as a result I didn't get to talk to several people there whose blogs I read and who I would have liked to meet. I'll try to do better next time.
The group seemed more beach than suburban, and had a surprisingly large number of very recent transplants to Miami. And the food was good!
But it was a bit of a shock to be told by one local blogger about the secret plan to replace the dollar with the Amero. Who knew?
I had fun and look forward to the next one.
Nice meeting you and your wife as well, Michael. The Amero? Wow.
Nice meeting you and your wife as well, Michael. The Amero? Wow.
It was nice meeting both of you at the dinner.
Order your Amero coins now http://www.dc-coin.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=8
Brad