I am all packed to leave tomorrow morning for BlogHer. I will be flying from Dublin to LA and then driving up with Lauren, Erika, and Megan to San Jose for BlogHer, with Julie Wanda and Tink joining us later Thursday evening. I am very excited to go home to Calif for a week, to hang out with friends, see Scruffy, and go to BlogHer.

Last year's inaugural BlogHer was a one day blogging love-in and towards the end - a festival. This year is two days. In two days, how much trouble can we get into? Lots.

I will be speaking on Day Two at 3:30pm with Liz Perry and Mrs. Kennedy on "Is Your Blog a Gallery or a Canvas?"

Watch this space for photos and text for the plane trip, the road trip, and the blog trip.

On another note, last friday, I was in the MSCMM computer lab when Trinity College Computer Science Dept. networking / help wiz, Geraldine "Mary" Loftus, who came in to install some software on our machines. We got talking about BlogHer and Geraldine's blog research.

Geraldine is finishing up her Master's degree at DCU in Internet Systems and just submitted her master's thesis on Irish Blog Research. Blogs have not really taken off in Ireland and Geraldine wanted to figure out why. She also wanted to come to BlogHer this year, but it didn't work out given it was so close to her submission date. Check out Geraldine's blog and her research.

We both decided that someone, not us, needs to do research on why women are at least 50% or more of bloggers worldwide but continue to rate their IT skills as lower than men of similiar skills...