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Ross is the man; I’ve been loving his weekly posts summarizing the weekly goings-on of the DC tech community. Now he’s taken it one step further: DC Tech Events Weekly, a site dedicated to summarizing the next 7 days of what’s happening in DC tech stuff. Simply awesome.

And check this, Ross goes into a bit more detail on the inner-workings of DC Tech Events:

In January I posted about an idea I called the “Editorial Calendar Aggregator“, but I hadn’t really connected it to any particular task I needed such a tool to accomplish….Things started to fall into place after I set up a database and a thin web interface to edit events with. Now I find myself almost there– The system currently pulls in event data from 21 different groups automatically, and I can annotate the events that come in as I see fit. I want to support a few more calendar formats, add an approval queue (so I can subscribe to more general event streams, like searches from Upcoming.org and Eventful, without accepting every event), and publish in one or more forms of output that are actually reusable, but none of those things are much of a leap from what I have now.

In checking out the other sponsors for Thursday’s TECH Cocktail DC, I was introduced to Wine Library TV. I’m not a huge wine drinker (I’m more of a scotch guy), but I find myself very intrigued by the show, which is done extremely well; the host, Gary Vaynerchuck, shows great enthusiasm and really makes a topic I wouldn’t normally be interested in compelling. There’s even a whole episode devoted to kosher wines!

And today I noticed that Cork’d, a niche social network for wine-lovers, was acquired by Wine Library TV. The combination of original content, user-generated content, social networking and, most importantly, high-end products that cater to high-income demographics, seems like a good combination. I’d bet that something like this would work for scotch, cigars, maybe even beer (putting aside the issues with selling this stuff online, which can be tricky). It’s nice to see a business model that doesn’t rely on advertising.

Anyone going to the NextDC event tonight? I’m going to do my best to get there. And Social Media Club is tomorrow night, I’m going to shoot for that one as well.

Chris Heuer and the Social Media Club are coming to DC on Monday October 30th. Register here (it’s free), and there’s a blogger dinner afterwards as well.

One important topic the Social Media Club has been tackling lately is the issue of disclosure in the blogosphere.

See you there.

Note to all DC/Baltimore Social Media People (or anyone who loves the web): as much as we love Chris, we don’t need to wait until he comes to town to get together. We need to do these things monthly at the very least.

Gabe’s in town. Circle the wagons.

On a related note: am I the only one who sees “techmeme” as “Tech-Me-Me?”

If you’re in the DC area, make sure to sign up for DC 2.0, scheduled for Wed. March 15 in the Reston offices of Mintz Levin. Blogdigger is proud to be sponsoring the event, and I’ll be there to demo our service. More importantly, I’m hoping that this will be one of many future DC-area tech/geek/Web 2.0 gatherings.

Update: Despite what the Eventful page says, my understanding is that there are about 50 people registered so far. Check with Stowe Boyd for an exact count.

Last night I came across a site/organization called Refresh DC. According to the site:

Refresh is a community of web designers, developers, and other new media professionals working together to refresh the creative, technical, and professional of their trades in the Washington, DC, area.

Our goal is simple: bring together the best and brightest new media developers in the DC metro area so that we may learn from one another. Our industry is too rich for any one person to “know it all.” That’s where we come in.

Sounds awesome, I’ve been looking for something just like this for a while (it would seem like a good place to find web developers). I’ve signed up for the mailing list, hopefully something will happen soon. Between Refresh, DC 2.0 and BrainJams, we’ve got a good start on organizing the tech community in DC/Baltimore. Hopefully we can keep up the pace.

I just heard the news that Gary Price is leaving SearchEngineWatch and heading over to Ask Jeeves! Congrats! I’m relieved that Gary is not leaving the DC area, since every once in a while we grab a schwarma together and talk shop. Also, ResourceShelf and DocuTicker will continue to update.
Best of luck Gary!

The folks behind the Web 2.0 Innovation Map were kind enough to add in Blogdigger. The DC area is kind of lonely, but I know there are other folks in the area that could get on the map. Slapcast, Syndic8, DABU, or anyone from here or anyone else I’m forgetting.

Update: And, of course, Localfeeds! I forgot Ross moved to the DC area not too long ago.

Ken Yarmosh, one of the folks I met at BrainJams, has a great post entitled “7 Ways to Avoid Blogging Burnout.” Ken led a discussion on this topic at BrainJams; I was a bit overzealous in my contribution to the discussion, only because this is something I’ve experienced quite a bit over the past three years.

Also check out Ken’s blog Technosight; Ken is also one of the guys behind DC 2.0; if you’re in DC and technology, you don’t want to miss it.