Archives for October 8th, 2004

Slovenia’s bloggers are the pride of the nation.

According to a recent study by Vidmar.net, there are over 40 blogs in Slovenia right now, half of them secretly written by Živa. That leaves another twenty, half of which are never updated. So, to quickly sum up, there are a total of ten active blogs here and almost all of them are updated from the psychopath wing of the Villette mental hospital.

Nevertheless, it’s time to break free and meet. Already in September, veteran blogger and dedek Sps suggested that bloggers in Slovenia gather together in Ljubljana for a gigantic celebration of the lizard. He even offered to pay for everybody’s drinks and food, although I could be making that up. No firm date was set, although a weekend in October was suggested.

Although I read plenty of Slovenian blogs, I’ve never actually met a Slo-blogger in the flesh. I don’t even have an idea what any of them look like, with the exception of anaiis, who broke on through to the other side a few days ago by posing topless on her blog. (Don’t miss her superb imitation of the classic painting Gabrielle d’Estrees and One of her Sisters circa 1595.)

At any rate, I recently got my hands on a schedule for SloBlogMeet 2004, and discovered that there will be lectures. Good ones, too. Here are five presentations planned for the event:

Naslov: Kako s Canon 1D Mark II fotoaparatom skrivoma fotografirati ljudi v njihovih domovanjih, Å¡e posebno takrat, ko so namenjeni pod tuÅ¡: Powerpoint predstavitev. (Udeleženci morajo biti 18 in veÄ?)
Title: Using the Canon 1D Mark II camera to secretly take pictures of people in their apartments, especially when they’re about to get in the shower: A Powerpoint presentation. (Must be 18 or older)
Speaker: A-Blog

Naslov: 50 razlogov zakaj je Slovenija zaniÄ?, HrvaÅ¡ka pa zakon.
Title: 50 Reasons why Slovenia sucks and Croatia rules
Speaker: SPS

Naslov: Zakaj so islandski gejzirji ustvarjeni za skrivanje Ä?loveÅ¡kih teles.
Title: Why Iceland’s geysers make great places to hide human bodies
Speaker: BeeBee

Naslov: Lepo je biti milijonar: Konfiguriranje tvojega iPod-a za vdiranje v online banÄ?ne raÄ?une.
Title: Who wants to be a millionaire? Configuring your iPod to Hack into online bank accounts
Speaker: D. Vidmar

Naslov: Najbolj dolgoÄ?asna predstavitev, ni kaj dosti za povedat.
Title: The most boring presentation imaginable so there really isn´t much to tell
Speaker: Živa

Keep in mind that this will be the first Blogmeet in Slovenian history and that, no, there won’t really be any lectures. So far it looks like the five above-mentioned bloggers will come, and I’m hoping to see novala and Brian there as well.

If this sounds interesting to you, and if you are a Slovenian blogger, contact sps and ask him to keep you updated. You can write to him in Slovene (or Croatian) at “sps{AFNA}email{PIKA}si.” Or just a leave a comment in this post with an address where you can be reached.

Hope to see everyone there!