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Blog World Expo kicked off this morning and is going strong.  Due to a late arriving flight, my desire to sleep overtook my desire to hear today’s keynote – the one I’m looking forward to is tomorrow with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park & Fort Minor anyway.  Ran into some familiar faces right away and hit the ground running into the super blogger panel moderated by Jim Kukral and featuring Darren Rowse of ProBlogger, Brian Clark of Copyblogger, Zac Johnson, John Chow, and Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney, who misunderstood the timing I guess and was 45 mins late

Great stuff from those guys and I was even randomly picked to win a copy of Darren’s ProBlogger book after asking a decent question.  Of course, I’ll have more on that panel later.

Next I stayed in the same room for the affiliate marketing panel with Shawn Collins of Affiliate Summit, Mike Allen of Shopping-Bargains, and Tim Jones of TheRealTimJones (yes, all familiar names if you listen to RedHatBlueHat).  They had some really good stuff and brought up some tools and such that I’m definitely going to be looking into when my whirlwind crazy travel is  done.  Once again, more to come.

You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t blogged a lot about CJU.  Due to the motel I was staying at being so far away and the internet there being spotty I didn’t have a lot of time to get those written up.  But I’m working on it!

If you’re stuck at home with Twitter and trying to keep up with what’s going on out here, go to Twitter Search for #bwe08 and you can see all the tweets that attendees have tagged.  I’m trying to keep mine updated as I remember to use TwitPic to share a photo of something.