· Dear bloggess: I’m going to blogher and I want to hang out with the popular bloggers. Is there a special place the cool A-listers hang out? ~ Cheri

“Popular blogger” is an oxymoron. It’s like being the sexiest National Scrabble Champion or the best local Newt Gingrich impersonator. Being a popular blogger doesn’t make you any more interesting to hang out with and truthfully, a lot of popular bloggers are really good at blogging only because they’re so shitty at dealing with people in real life situations. That’s kind of the reason why most of us turn to blogging…because we’re terrified of real people. If you just want to hang out with cool people you should probably check out the people catering the conference who have never even heard of blogging. Or maybe go to a cheerleader conference instead.

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