Dot Com Pho: Coquitlam Double Edition
In the past two weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of joining in on Dot Com Pho – an event that takes place every Saturday where Vancouver’s internet gurus’ get together to talk smack on the latest iPhone apps and enjoy some wonderful Vietnamese dining. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts because of the poor economy, my two episode stint got mashed into one. To make matters even worse, Head substitute honcho Stephen Fung decided to take a break from regular Pho dining and have regular gwai lo breakfast instead.
So here we are:
On a serious note, it was great to put some faces onto people I interact with Twitter every day and I learned a whole bunch of stuff (like how to magnetize cutlery). When I tell people that I want to be a ‘professional’ blogger, I often get a lot of “are you serious?” looks. To many, blogging is associated with hobbies like Xanga and Facebook. At meetups like Dot Com Pho, people there treat blogging as both a lifestyle and a career. If that intrigues you, I definitely encourage you to try and make it to one. They welcome anybody and everybody! In fact, you don’t even need a blog.
PS – in case you’re wondering if @stephenfung and @iphoneincanada are faking their constant argument to create publicity- they are 10x worse in real life. Trust me.
