Sebastien "Seb's Open Research" Paquet, one of Canada's bright lights on the social software and blogging front, made his first visit to Accordion City (he even called it "Accordion City" in his email!) on Sunday, and invited a few local bloggers to come out for lunch on Monday. The attendees were:

We met for lunch at Cafe Diplomatico, in the heart of the Little Italy that occupies College Street West (we have a couple of Little Italies). Discussed in addition to blogging (which was to be expected) were the supposed rigor of academics, the upcoming election, censorship, Iran, search engines, the University of Waterloo and the glassy-eyed expressions of most of the other folks in the restaurant as they watched Italy playing the World Cup.

It was alos the first time I'd met this group of bloggers, and I had great fun. Thanks for organizing this get-togerher, Seb!

As for you locals -- Hoder, Michael, Kaveh, Melanie -- I'll be sure to let you guys know about any upcoming GTABlogger gatherings.


I took a couple of photos -- you can check 'em out, in photo album or slideshow form.