Tag: Lowcountry Bloggers

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RIP Jared

I was saddened to hear yesterday about the death of Jared Smith.

Most people today know him as the guy behind CHSWX where he did a lot of local weather reporting, and quickly became the source for information during severe weather events for lots of people across the Lowcountry.

I know him as an tech and weather geek who spoke about everything with excitement and enthusiasm.

I first met him a long, long time ago (if you call 20 years a long time) in a place not far away, when a group of local bloggers started getting together in person. Jared wasn’t part of the group of bloggers, but he was one of those “Twitter” people who joined us at our quasi-regular meetups.

Jared with Dan Conover (L) and Mike Courtney (R) at a Lowcountry Bloggers picnic, September 2006

Tech, baseball, and weather (not necessarily in that order) were the things he was always enthusiastically talking about.

Jared double-fisting the Blackberries
Lowcountry Bloggers 2009 i5k team
Lowcountry Bloggers meetup at a Riverdogs game, April 2008
Name badges the Jared way

Jared’s death is a huge loss for all of us who knew him, and I know we’ll all miss him.

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Post-holiday Bowen’s Island meetup

Join the Charleston blog/twitter-verse at Bowen’s Island Restaurant Jan 5 for a post-holiday oyster binge!

Show up any time after 5PM.

Don’t forget, Bowen’s Island is cash only.

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A cool Blognic ’09

The weather was a little on the cool and grey side with a little bit of sun peeking out here and there. Attendance at this year’s Blognic was light, but the company and conversation was good.

Calvin makes some pretty tasty lumpia.

Of course the dogs didn’t mind the cool weather at all. Even spending an hour running around at the dog park didn’t even make a dent in their energy level.

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LCB’s third anniversary

Heather noted that most of the better attended meetups happened to be ones that I threw together. I think I just got volunteered for stuff.

Today’s third anniversary meetup turned out pretty well. Had about 20 bloggers and tweeters show up, possibly much to the dismay of the lone newbie waitress working the patio area who was expecting a slow evening. I was pleasantly surprised by the numbers that showed.

It’s always good to get together and I think everybody had a pretty good time.

Several #jaredrumours were being formulated.

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3 years of meetup-ing

Hard to believe, but May 16 will make it 3 years now since the inaugural Lowcountry Bloggers meetup (yes Chuck, I know you and Joan and a couple others met up before that).

From that very first meetup at Toucan Reef (now called Harbor Grille), the Lowcountry blogging community has grown from a few dozen blogs to well over 400 that are being rounded up and aggregated at lowcountrybloggers.com and lowcountryblogroll.com. It’s a community that’s grown to encompass not just bloggers, but Twitter users and just about every other social web thing out there.

Doesn’t seem like it’s been only three years. I feel like I’ve known the people I’ve met through LCB a lot longer than three years. I’ve met a lot of really great people through their blogs (and tweets), and being able to meet them in person has been pretty awesome.

To celebrate the occasion, I’ve checked with Harbor Grille to make sure their patio will be available and they’ve said it should be no problem. So join me and a few others returning to the scene of the crimewhere Dan helped kick everything off.

Oh, and don’t feel like you have to be a blogger to join in. Come hang out with us even if you’re a non-blogger. We don’t bite (pretty sure most of us don’t anyway).