It’s less than a week until CreateSouth. There are several Lowcountry Bloggers speaking at CreateSouth, and even more on the list of attendees. It should be a great time, and I’m excited that the Lowcountry will be so well represented.

It has been a slower than average weekend on the blogging front, probably correlated to the beautiful weather.  (And in my opinion, that’s a good thing!)  I’m probaby too early for the Kulture Klash reviews to be starting, so we’ll get that tomorrow.

This post is a few days old, but a great one, and popped up in my Google Reader today.  Agricola takes us through the history of a local blog.

Notoriously Nice Mike notes that the Charleston food scene is starting to get some national recognition.  Al Forno has a more details look at the article in Gourmet.

Signal 46 went to the Symphony Under the Stars in Goose Creek.

Eric bought a Netbook and gives us a review.

I was very excited to see that our iFiveK race helped Eugene catch the running bug, and I hope he sticks with it!

It’s Good Friday, and I’m squeaking today’s roundup in barely under the wire.

James took some time today to reflect on the significance of Good Friday.

Patrick Properties highlights John Zahl, the Fish Friday night DJ, and an Episcopalian priest.  Seems like the right place to party on Good Friday.

Some people observe a Lenten tradition of eating fish on Friday’s instead of meat.  That’s a very weak segue to these fishing pictures.  (It’s late on a Friday night, it’s the best I can do!)

Other things that happen on Fridays:

Joan tells us a joke.

Jason gives us free music.

Fridaville (it’s got most of the letters in Friday, not sure if there’s a correlation) shares some secrets.

Not a whole lot of blogging happening today, so it’s going to be a short roundup.

Upper King Design District notes that tickets are on sale for Kulture Klash 4, and Suite Sole is a sponsor.

The Charleston SC Java Users Group is dead, long live the Technology Users Group.  They’re not going away, just widening their focus:

This change will reflect the changes in the software industry. The industry, in general, has been moving away from singule language solutions and towards integrated approaches that leverage many technologies, all working in harmony.

Ian passes along an update from River Run Farms about local grass fed beef.

Becky ponders what she’d say at a Career Fair.  This answer is my favorite:

What advice would you give to a student today what would help prepare them for a career in your field?
-Learn to live on very little money and begin eating cupcakes regularly so that your body begins to assimilate sugar well.

Eugene bids farewell to Blend, his lunchtime sammich spot.

When 30-40,000 people do something, you have to figure quite a few of them will be blogging it.

Erika of the City Paper gives us her perspective on the event, along with a gallery of pictures.

Chip got some great pictures of runners in costume.

News2 had some runners in the race.  Some worked during the race, and others worked afterwards.

Kristin has a great recap of her day, with some video footage of herself taken by her cheering section.  Seems like she’s right on pace with her marathon training.

Mike completed the Bridge Run Doubleheader.

Greg finished with some of his Bridge Run Clinic proteges.

Andre seems to have very much enjoyed the experience.

I ran it too.  It was a great day, and I loved seeing everyone’s pictures.  I was too focused on trying to breathe to take any!

If I missed anyone’s recap, or if you just haven’t posted your pictures and stories yet, leave me a link in the comments and I’ll update the post.

Perusing the blog roll today, I saw a lot of posts about blogging, and how it fits into our lives.

Djuanna reflects on the things that cause us to fall behind on our blogs.

A fellow blogger quitting the game caused Honor’s Code to reflect on the balance we need to keep in our lives:

If I ever got the impression my WoW time, or Blogging time was having a negative impact on my marriage, or my time with my daughter, I’d be gone in a skinny minute.

Joan is spreading the word and getting more people started on blogging in the Lowcountry:

I may not have been a star pupil as a child and my high school teachers could have trouble picturing it, but I taught a lively class today. The topic was “Blogging” and these were my star students.

Nonprofit Technology provides some blogging tips.

This is my theme for the roundup falls apart, but how can I resist pointing out that Blue Ion has an autographed picture of Wayne Newton!

Before I get started, it’s your last chance to vote in our T-shirt design contest.  I submitted an entry, so to keep things fair, tomorrow Heather will end the voting and declare a winner.

Today was the Charleston Hashtag Summit.  It sounds like I missed out on a lot of fun, #tacos, and sunshine today at the Nacho Royale.  Fortunately for me, and for all of you in my situation, we have some recaps.  Jared has a quick writeup with a picture, and Dan has a more detailed summary of the results:

The #CHS prefix
While Charleston County and Charleston the city are only geographical subsets of a larger community/media market generally known as the Lowcountry, we went with the tag #CHS to describe it. Reason? Because using our airport code is an efficient, already popular way of communicating a general location.

Blue Ion tells us that Charleston Fashion Week officially kicked off.

The Pedicab Man welcomes a new addition to the family.

Michael Douglas Smith announces the start of a new venture.

Charleston Green Drinks has put together a flyer for the Carrotmob.

Hugging the Coast points us to the announcements for the James Beard Award finalists.  Several Charleston favorites made the list.

Here are the entries in our T-shirt design contest.  I think they are all great, and I am very excited to get the shirts printed up.  The entrants will remain anonymous during the voting.  You can vote at the bottom of the post!

Update on 3/26/09:  Voting has ended and a winner selected.  See the results here.

It was a bit of a slow news day today.  I guess everyone was recovering from celebrating St. Patrick’s Day yesterday.

If you haven’t already, it’s your last chance to submit an entry for our T-shirt design contest.  I’d like to start the voting tomorrow, so get ‘em submitted!  Eugene has started training for the run, let’s make sure he looks snazzy in his T-shirt

Cody posted his NCAA Tournament Bracket.  I’m sure everyone is busy filling them out for office pools and such.  I’m not going to formally organize a pool, but post your picks on your blog and leave a link in the comments here before the games start tomorrow, and we can at least compete for bragging rights.

In other sports news (I have to cover it or no one does), we’ve got one Phillies fan that is a little worried about the problems with Cole Hamels elbow, but not panicking yet.

Rounding out coverage of most of the active sports right now, Christopher congratulates Martin Brodeur on his record setting 552nd win.

Hugging the Coast reports on the Mayonnaise Riot of 2009 that almost was.

And last but not least, it appears that Joan can’t go anywhere without running into a blogger.  It’s all part of our plan for world domination.

First things first, the serious part.  One of our local blogging families really needs your thoughts, prayers, good vibes, support, and any other positive energy you can send their way.  I know we have a strong community here, let’s use it to support a family in their time of great need.

Before you let go of all that positive energy you’ve gathered, head on over to Jason’s blog and learn about “Global Food Crisis Day“.  (hint:  it’s today)

On to some more of your everyday roundup topics:

Pink Wallpaper shows us a house that has an in-ground trampoline. Might be the coolest thing ever.

Jared reports in from a meeting of the fledgling Charleston Social Media Club.

Connection Maven has a great piece on the importance of PR in different industries.  Some great tips in there as well:

Electronic media have a half life that is probably equivalent to that of radioactive elements. Just ask those whose businesses have been dissed or dumped in cyberspace. OR ask their competitors whose products have been featured in editorial space. What shows up when you Google your company?

The Upper King Design District is getting ready for Fashion Week.

Last but, certainly not least, The Tofu has moved to a new home on the internet.

No, I’m not talking about the Bridge Run.  Apparently today is National Get-Over-It-Day.  I guess this means I have to stop complaining about how silly I think Daylight Savings Time is.

In local news, the College of Charleston upset Davidson, and tonight will play for a bid to the NCAA tournament.  Go Cougars!

Eugene gives us a review of the Great American Grill.

King Street Kitchen Company is doing monthly cooking demonstrations:

This month’s special guest is Executive Chef Nico Romo from Fish Restaurant. Join us Wednesday, March 11 from 6:00-8:00 for a sampling of delicious food and wine, while taking away recipes that you can easily do on your own at home.

Given the recent surge in interest in local produce and Slow Food, I thought this article called out by OldController would be interesting to many.

Matt at A New Marketing gives us some blogging tips.  The first one is my favorite, but they’re all good:

If you don’t love it. Don’t do it. Or quit now and save yourself the trouble.

And in the world of the bizarre, I present, Ian in a big chair: