Last night found me at the London Geek Dinner, something that Euan told me on Monday was once organized as an intimate dinner for Robert Scoble by a few friends. As bashes go this was probably one of the larger ones. Over 200 signed up to attend. It's been well reported on the wiki and Flickr. I particularly enjoyed meeting Kosso, Andrew Smit, Neville Hobson. I was bummed that I missed out on seeing Johnnie Moore and Tom Coates. Apparently both in the crowd.

I find the "virtuous circle" these events set up interesting. Attendees and bloggers alike build their community and everyone's blog benefits. Geek blogger or not, I shared the lesson with Jaanus who's just kicked off the share.skype blog. I suggested that like Robert he start promoting that he reads 1000 blogs a day and has them all in his news reader. Then as his traffic builds that a trackback from his blog like Robert's could become enought to kick many blogs into a higher orbit. (Just need to get the Share.Skype Blog to accept trackbacks and be willing to send them!) The reciprocity is Robert gets far more comments, than he gives out and everyone wins. As I understood it from Robert's talk he's the only Microsoft evangelist without a portfolio. He's just at large!

Thanks to Robert and Hugh Macleod for providing the excuse to get us all together.