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Local blog shenomenon Sarah in Tampa is now creating content for ReadWriteWeb and Microsoft's Channel 10. Heard it on a blog from Tampa called Sticks of Fire, perhaps the best placeblog in Florida.

The NFI Studios blog had a very nice post about our little group today. I want to thank Lynda Raphael (any relation to Sterling?) for writing such a positive post. She even quoted Mr. Richard Florida (who is not the namesake for our group, but) whose writings are often compared with our grassroots community-building efforts here in Orlando and around the state.

Here's some of what Lynda wrote:

I just noticed on a PeachPit Press blog that Blog Orlando was mentioned. Normally I don't read their blogs, but I happened to come
across a link in their newsletter that I get since they sponsor my user group. Among the big names mentioned in the post is one of our own crew, Alex Rudloff. Here's a quote:

Someone sent me an email this morning saying that OrlandoSentinel.com was running a story on the upcoming BarCamp on Sept 23rd at Taste. The article is "A gathering of the geeks", and it sports a picture of a few people's hands and Jason Siefer's head (and one unidentified programmer, but I think he's an ORUG guy too).

Here's the most quotable part of the article by Wes Smith:

Some time ago, I was cruising the Coworking wiki and I saw some info about Jelly, which is essentially "living room coworking". I remember making an edit to the wiki at the time and adding Orlando and a link here or an email to invite people over for Jelly at my place, but I can't even find that entry now.

Nonetheless, as Anna Jane Grossman was writing this article about NYC Jelly for wired.com, she must have stumbled across a message that had my post. Here's a little of the article: