{"id":180,"date":"2006-01-26T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/01\/26\/sometimes-face-to-face-is-good\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T18:02:09","slug":"sometimes-face-to-face-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/01\/26\/sometimes-face-to-face-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes face to face is good"},"content":{"rendered":"

As noted by both Mark Evans<\/a> (who writes for the National Post) and lawyer\/blogger Rob Hyndman<\/a>, a few of us lonely Toronto bloggers got together for a little face time at The Paddock last night — a group that included Tyler Hamilton<\/a> (who writes for the Toronto Star) and Mike McDerment<\/a>, founder of 2ndSite<\/a> and a principal in web development company Anicon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark makes the point that this was no Om Malik-style Silicon Valley meetup<\/a> — for one thing, it was freezing cold — nor was it the kind of day that Dave Johnson<\/a> of Vancouver describes in his comment to my post about Om’s day, in which Dave says he often runs into Paul Kedrosky<\/a> while biking along the seashore, or goes skiing with Dick Hardt<\/a> or runs into Tim “ongoing” Bray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, it was a lot of fun — plenty of stimulating conversation. Sometimes it’s good to get out from behind the keyboard and actually see people in the flesh \ud83d\ude42 Hopefully, more of that will be coming in the future.<\/p>\n

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As noted by both Mark Evans (who writes for the National Post) and lawyer\/blogger Rob Hyndman, a few of us lonely Toronto bloggers got together for a little face time at The Paddock last night — a group that included Tyler Hamilton (who writes for the Toronto Star) and Mike McDerment, founder of 2ndSite and … <\/p>\n

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