"I'm kind of a big deal" and rightfully so...

PEOPLE KNOW ME. Hahaha, for any of you who don't know, that is from Anchorman, a Will Ferrell movie. But in all seriousness, Tom told us about how he started AskTom for Oracle as a hobby in his spare time. It seems his little experiment has turned into a magnificent success, and he deserves all the credit he is getting.

This weekend, I attended CPAC--the Conservative Political Action Conference--and I thought about what Tom had said several times. The first was completely irrelevant, but funny, so I think I will share. A woman whose last name was Ducey came up to a group of us and started talking about how she was going to run for president in 2008. However, I thought her last name was "Dooce" for a second, and so I thought about the dooce blog. Ridiculous, I know, in more than one way. She also was a horrible dresser. I'm sorry.

So anyways, I had actually started paying attention to how many professional bloggers were there at the Omni Shoreham Hotel for the conference. One man, Justin Hart came to speak with me about his blog on Mitt Romney.

At the back of the exhibit hall, there were a whole bunch of bloggers set up with their laptops, recording everything that was going on. This brought me back to when Tom was talking about hypothetically blogging in the airport after being stuck on plane for hours on end. These people could basically sit there and type about anything they thought appropriate and interesting, and then wait for a response. I bet this kind of blogging is more fun than being a servant to the people and giving them technical advice (am I wrong? I could be).

Also, right before the controversial Miss Ann Coulter came in to speak (which she made comments that the bloggers are all over), I witnessed the ceremony that was rewarding the best blogger for the past year. Unfortunately, I did not catch the site, but I got that he recieved a large sum of money as an award (maybe I should take up political blogging???).

CPAC as a whole was a giant social network that will continue on long after the last exhibitor packs up and leaves the hotel. This is becuase blogging brings power to the people. Tom, a very, very smart man is able to help those who need Oracle help right away via AskTom. The arbitrary Republican in Idaho can stay connected to the party via Townhall or Redstate.com.

Thank you, Tom and all bloggers (even if you are really bad at it) for giving of your time and keeping us in the know. Without you, we'd live our lives a lot slower than we do. And no one likes to be behind.
(No child left behind? Haha, a nice little political joke for ya...)