Erin O’Neil of the NY Daily News came to the Blogfest and seemed to really get what was going on. Her story is a real nice shout-out about the event and a list of some of the bloggers, who were there.

When Petra Symister moved from Chelsea to Bedford-Stuyvesant she lost her sense of community – but blogging cured her loneliness.

"I feel more connected to this neighborhood by blogging than I did in nine years living in Chelsea," she said.

Symister created the Bed-Stuy Blog 14 months ago, joining a Brooklyn-based
network of citizen and professional writers, photographers and
videographers who leave the comfort of their computer desks to meet in
person every year at the Brooklyn Blogfest.

Last week, the Brooklyn Lyceum hosted the third annual event, which
was started by Louise ("Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn") Crawford in 2006
to put virtual names to actual faces.

"We were calling each other by our blog names," said Crawford, whose
blog is four years old. "We’re not that sort of cyber-weird. People
come out from behind their computers and meet up."

This year’s blogfest attracted hundreds of people who blog, want to
blog or find blogging interesting. The event also featured guest
speakers from online and print media, as well as video montages and a
"Shout-Out" where bloggers new to the scene could announce their names
– and URLs.

Go to the article and you can start connecting with the bloggers of Brooklyn here.