I can strike one thing off my karma to-do list. On Wednesday night, I popped into the Irish Embassy where the Mesh Meetup was held and offered my personal apology to ProBlogger Darren Rowse. What most impressed me was Darren’s approachable personality and humble demeanor. I’ve read all about those qualities before, but to experience it is definitely a worthy learning experience to improve myself.

There were many others in attendance and I got to shoot the breeze with a few of the B5 Media founders, the Mesh conference founders, fellow bloggers (I met Tony Hung and will be reading his blogs more often!) and Web 2.0 enthusiasts. I fully intend to make the 2007 Mesh Conference to extend my involvement in the community. This little frog needs to climb out of its well once in a while and realize the sky is not just a small circle!

Well, I guess this would be the appropriate time to also announce that I’ve become a four-figure blogger in 2006. It’s really not that much and most of the pie were due to my investment blogging on Investorial.com, and my involvement with the financial blogging community such as AOL Blogging Stocks, InvestorGeeks, GuruWatch just to name a few. I past that milestone revenue mark a while back and slowly, steadily hope to improve on those results. One of my remarks to Darren was that “it’s amazing sometimes where the roads we choose takes us”. I began to blog because I became addicted to “the writing process”. Many bloggers I met at the meetup also echoed the same sentiments about being to “vent”, or “release” their thoughts and opinion on ideas and memes that are absorbed from all forms of media.

One of the things I hope to do is improve my research and writing process. My syndicated reading lists are overwhelming at times, and I need to strive for a happy medium between Yaro Starak’s figure of 20 feeds and Darren’s figure of 400 feeds. It’s time for an RSS spring cleaning!

To all the really nice people I’ve met at the meetup. I’m sorry if I didn’t get to mention everyone. But I hope to write more follow-up posts once I visit all your sites. And I will! My internet connection has been spotty lately. I’m also looking for a solution to put my vast collection of RSS feeds online. I usually use Thunderbird as my offline syndicated reading application, but there are times where I have to do this work outside of the house because of the internet connection issue. Any suggestions for online / offline solution comparable to Thunderbird would be welcomed! Especially if it’s a solution that can work in sync with Thunderbird as I don’t wish to re-read any feeds that have already been read.