Momocrat Julie Pippert interviews New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen for both Momocrats & BlogHer.

If you've been holding off on registering for BlogHer '08, now is most definitely the time to act. We've been tracking BlogHer registrations, and today was, for some reason, a tremendously active day. Which means we are planning to shut down new registrations tomorrow, July 2nd at 6PM Pacific time. So, no joke and no scare tactic: The next 24 hours are it for BlogHer registrations. Please join us, and join us quickly!!

it's that time again: Time to find the experts out in our community who want to pass along their hard-won expertise to their fellow bloggers. The Reach Out Tour is coming to a city near you in October...if you live near Boston, DC, Nashville, Greensboro, Atlanta or New Orleans...and we are looking for local experts and local color. Track #1: Blogging Basics

UPDATED: All Room of Your Own slots are currently taken, so if you're interested in being put on the waiting list Email Elisa and let her know. Last week I announced BlogHer Meet-up, Birds of a Feather and Room of Your Own opportunities at BlogHer '08 this summer.

As of today, we are six weeks away from the beginning of BlogHer '08 on Friday, July 18th. And we have only 150 slots open for registration. That may sound like a lot, but at the rate registration has been going in the last couple of weeks I can safely say that we will once again sell out, and it could happen more than a couple of weeks before the event starts.

Every year we try different things at our conferences, particularly around how we provide opportunities for bloggers to connect with one another. This year we are trying yet another new spin on two of our annual conference standards: Birds of a Feather sessions and Room of Your Own sessions. Birds of a Feather

The screengrab team is tired, but Greg's still editing. It's been a long day full of learning, interaction, blogging, and soon-to-be drinking. 

Screengrab meets up with Christa Avampato at the 2008 BlogHer Business Conference.  

Great News! Email notification for comments has arrived (or come back if you remember the brief moment in time when we offered this feature on the "old" BlogHer.) Many of you have asked us to return this service and, now that we've worked the bugs out, we are very happy to offer it. Here's how it works: You can now subscribe to blog posts you make on BlogHer and comments will be emailed to you. You can also have comments emailed to you from blog posts you didn't write but have commented on. Are you confused? Don't worry, it sounds more confusing than it is. The first thing you need to do is decide whether you want to "auto subscribe" to the blog posts that you write on BlogHer or whether you want to subscribe to just some of your blog posts. If you want to subscribe on a case by case basis then you simply click the checkbox next to "subscribe" in the subscription menu that's been added to the "Blog Entry" module. (It's right underneath the "input format" menu.)

Hot on the heels of her quadruple-win at the 2008 Weblog Awards, I am pleased to announce that Heather Armstrong (aka Dooce) is returning to BlogHer '08 this July in San Francisco. Heather was part of the very first BlogHer "Naked" session at the inaugural conference in 2005, and spoke about the ups, downs and late nights of monetizing your blog in 2006.

I had been shopping at the local Fry's Computer store recently, buying a new flat screen computer monitor and various other supplies to assist running some of the day-to-day tasks at AskPatty.com. I was walking through the parking lot on my way back to my car when I saw something very rare parked among the vehicles there.