I was all day today at Blog Nashville, where I met several people whom I will be adding to my RSS (like Frank Paynter and Terry Heaton, Ed Cone, JD Lasica) and others I’ve already been reading (like Dave Winer, Dan Gillmour.

I also attended the FaithBased Bloger session, which wasn’t dominated by RightWing Pundits, even though the director of the session seems to admire some of these pundits. Neal Heaton spoke up about the use of language by “Evangelical Christians”, I stood up and mentioned my blog , and how I had never really thought about how my first forray into HTML publishing was very blog like, and that I emphasize how the Church can/should/might use blogs and related technological extensions/add-ons to enhance community, and how people sitting down from you in Church that you may have never known what they thought of a particular issue reveals that to you in response to something on your blog. There was certainly a majority of “Conservative evangelical”-Sounding folks, but there were enough that I didn’t feel so much like an outsider and a “spy”. Ed Cone also was in the session.