We had a great time last night at the Tampa Blogger Meetup. I got an opportunity to meet up with:

• Josh (@SIGEPJEDI) who just bought TampaBloggers.com (be interested to see what he does with the domain)
• Robert Nelson (@robertnelson)
• Robert Payne (@rpayne)
• Tony Katz (@tonykatz) who is moving out to L.A.
• Tara who writes Marketing Artfully (@TARAdactyl)
• Sarah Perez (@sarahintampa) who writes for ReadWriteWeb as well as Microsoft’s Channel 10.
• Real estate blogger Cyndee Haydon (@cyndeehaydon)
• Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) who works for Forrester Research and actually was the impetus for putting this meetup together.
• Rich Menga (@frostedside). Rich works for me over at PCMech and came along.
• Norman Dalager (works for the New York Times)

* Jeremiah, I ripped off your list of attendees. Sorry, was lazy.

It is nice to meet up in real life with some folks that do the same thing I do for a living. We have a nice community and too often bloggers stay too alienated in real life despite being connected online. So, I welcomed the chance to take some online relationships into real life and share some food and drink with them. There is another blogger meetup coming up toward the end of May I may try to hit, too. Let’s get all these people connected up!

And now, my super video: Calamari with Dave. This was recorded by Norman (the New York Times guy) with my Flip Video. We’re actually doing an informal review of the Flip. Enjoy!