John Battelle is going to be a Keynote Speaker at Webmasterworld Pubcon in LV later this year (November).  Webmetricsguru will be there (me) hopefully covering it with a Press Pass.

Small world!  I met John Battelle at Webmasterworld Pubcon in New Orleans over a year ago, in June 2005; he walked into the bar at the hotel where most of the conference was housed and had a drink.  Sometime, it’s easier to connect with someone that way - then when they are in front of a 1000 people, giving a keynote address.  After the Keynote - there’s 50 people waiting on line and it’s difficult to get a word in.

Recently, just yesterday, Boing Boing, linked to my article on Amy Crehore in ArtNYC. 

John talked about how he started Boing Boing for next to no money and spent, maybe 800 dollars a month in bandwidth and server changes to maintain the blog - which has become immensely popular.