In addition to this blog, I also write a blog for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called the Boomer Consumer.
When I received an invitation to attend a Blogger Bowling Bash for PI bloggers, I signed up right away.
It was fun to meet fellow bloggers, some whose blogs I’ve read and some I haven’t. I met staff bloggers, who get paid, and reader bloggers like me, who don’t.
Most of the reader bloggers I met blog once a week; I blog five times.
While I met a few boomer bloggers, many were Gen Y with some Gen X. It was interesting to talk to bloggers about boomer-Gen X-Gen Y conflicts.
It was exciting to meet David Horsey, the famous PI cartoonist, who is a boomer. He was a pretty good bowler, too.
I learned that the PI gets 42 million page views a month. That’s about what its competitor The Seattle Times gets.
On March 17, 2009, the 146-year old PI, owned by The Hearst Corp., ceased publication of the print newspaper, which had 117,600 weekday readers. Marketing staff attending the blogger event said that after the print version of the newspaper was discontinued, the page views for the on-line PI plummeted. One year later, page views have climbed to new heights.
A Japanese film crew was at the Blogger Bowling Bash filming. The PI is one of several media outlets in America that they’ve selected to feature.
It was great to get away from the computer screen and visit with other bloggers. I hope the PI throws another blogger bash soon.
Sounds like a fun event!
It was. I’m glad I took the time to go.
Rita
sounds like fun.