Well, well, well. Another one of those exclusive top blogger get-togethers took place in New York Wednesday, and nobody invited me! Hmmmph!
WNBC, the flagship station of the NBC television network, invited 130 of who they consider the most-read bloggers in New York to a special NYC Blogger Summit. From what the news report suggested, it looks like the station wants to try to form an alliance to use bloggers as a corps of grassroots news correspondents. If you cant beat em, hire em, I guess. They arent exactly offering money however, more like access to WNBC news reports and video footage. If you cant beat em, corrupt their sites with your mainstream media content, apparently.
Now from the brief glimpses of the blogger hordes seated in the audience section of the studio where Conan OBrien tapes his show, it seemed like a replay of that less than diverse group that Bill Clinton pulled together up in Harlem. I spotted just two Black faces, one of them Nichelle, and two Asians, one of them Jen Chung from Gothamist.com. Despite the presence of WNBC techno-geek correspondent Sree Sreenivasan, perhaps they too think bloggers come in one flavor.
Anybody else get an invite…or not?