We were bloggers when the word was coined but not quite in circulation. Back in 2000 or so, in our quest to pump up the traffic to SHECKYmagazine.com, we took our popular "Like We Care" page and made it front page. And we decided to update it on a daily or near-daily basis. (We did so manually. We were leery of adapting the Blogger technology, thinking that it would complicate the process unnecessarily... boy, were we wrong!)

We are now in Las Vegas, attending the BlogWorldExpo, a gathering of people who are up to their necks in one aspect or another of blogging and "new media." We're not quite sure what we're doing here... but we weren't quite sure what we were doing in Montreal in July of 1999 when we attended our first Just For Laughs festival.

We'll be attending the occasional speech, seminar and party (Oh, yeah!), and we'll also peruse the various booths and exhibits on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center. And we know of at least one other standup comic in attendance-- Kevin Pollak. Stay tuned.