Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for Greek Blogger Camp. This is the nearest blogging event to Cyprus so far. It’ll take place on one of the Greek islands - Ios, which is only three ship hours away from Piraeous (that’s marine part of Athens).

Not only it’s pretty close to Cyprus, but it’s one of those really affordable events too. The registration is only 30 Euros, and hotel stay is only 80 Euros (b/b). The ship that I mentioned earlier, will get to you the island for only about 50 Euros.

Not convinced? Here comes the heavy artillery - Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress creator himself, will attend the event. And there will be more interesting people too, including the Google regional representative, Greek bloggers and social media people.

Mark your calendars for the 2nd and 3rd of June, 2007. And start your preparations.

Many of you, Cyprus bloggers, use Flickr for image sharing. Flickr is not only an excellent technical solution, but also a great community. Tomorrow, Sunday, April 22, 2007 there will be a meet-up of Cyprus Flickr users. The meeting will take place in Larnaca. On the seaside palm promenade there is an Irish bar. People will start arriving at around 18:00.

Since this is the first meeting, there won’t be a lot of agenda or anything. It will probably go any direction that the participants will take it. Given the sociality of Flickr users, photography backgrounds of some of them, and Irish alcohol spot, a few interesting outcomes are possible…

Are you coming?

Cyprus Mail newspaper has recently published an article by Leo Leonidou titled “Out in the blogosphere“.

The article has a number of mistakes and misinterpretations. For example, it claims that there are “around 25 Cyprus-based blogs currently in operation”. I do agree that blogging is very young in Cyprus. But there are much more than 25 blogs. Way more. There are many Cypriot, Greek, British, Russian, and English bloggers. They write on a variety of subjects and in a number of languages.

I have sent an email to Mr.Leo Leonidou as well as to Editor in Chief and Technical Editor of Cyprus Mail, pointing out the problems with the article. I have also offered my technical expertise, as well as a draft of another article about blogging. I have no idea if it will get published, or if they have even received it. I’ll post a follow-up later.

As always, we are trying to find ways to improve Cyprus Blog Network, make it more useful and make it more fun. However, we are limited in time and creativity that we can put in. So, we’ve decided to try one of the obvious ways to trick those limitations - bring in more bloggers. And that means - you.

Would you like to write for Cyprus Blog Network? Would you like to be a voice of Cyprus blogging? Do you think that you can bring more information or good writing to this resource? Do you think that you can handle all the fun?

If so, drop us a line. This is your chance to join the Cyprus Blog Network team.

We will also test another style of blogging for a while. More posts, frequent updates, and more personal touch. With that, if you think that we missed some great news, or should blog about something that you consider interesting, please let us know.

We have added another section to our list of links - More blogs. Until now we had CBN members, CBN friends, and CBN sponsors. But those are just a few. There are plenty of excellent Cyprus related blogs out there, which don’t have any affiliation with Cyprus Blog Network. We’ll be linking to them from the “More blogs” section from now on.

If you know any blogs which are either about Cyprus or are maintained by Cyprus residents or citizens, that we don’t have links to, please let us know.