I couldn’t help but post a comment on Empire Zone, the New York Times blog. Hey, that’s what blogging is all about.

Fortunately I’ve got a pretty thick skin after more than 3 years of blogging (otbkb.com) and life as a weekly columnist in the Brooklyn Paper (brooklynpaper.com)

But hey, I agree with much that has been said. The Blogfest was south-Brooklyn-centric, there was too much development talk, we do need a larger venue, we do need to do wider outreach. Lack of diversity was addressed by me as was the hope that next year will include more and more people, more and more neighborhoods (including members of the journalism class I lectured to at Baruch College last week).

I may be a visionary to have invented this thing but I am only one person putting it together limited by my limitations.

I think I originally dreamed up the Blogfest in much the same spirit as my blog, Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: if I’m interested maybe others are too.

This blogging (and Blogfest) stuff is new territory for me and everyone else. Learning by doing, that’s my motto. Put it out there, and over time you can only hope to get it right.