My words written
A piece of mine
Troubles smitten
Within my mind

The verses placed
From line to line
My creation paced
Poured as wine

Poems are food
On rhythm I dine
Serving my best
No longer I pine

The releases are signed, the chapters have been submitted and now, the editing has begun. The following 237 folks have written a 1-page article in the Age of Conversations for 2008. This is a great project, read how it all happened on the Age of Conversation blog.

Here’s the entire Age of Conversations 2 OPML.

1. Adrian Ho
2. Aki Spicer
3. Alex Henault
4. Amy Jussel
5. Andrew Odom
6. Andy Nulman
7. Andy Sernovitz
8. Andy Whitlock
9. Angela Maiers
10. Ann Handley
11. Anna Farmery
12. Armando Alves
13. Arun Rajagopal
14. Asi Sharabi
15. Becky Carroll
16. Becky McCray
17. Bernie Scheffler
18. Bill Gammell
19. Bob LeDrew
20. Brad Shorr
21. Brandon Murphy
22. Branislav Peric
23. Brent Dixon
24. Brett Macfarlane
25. Brian Reich
26. C.B. Whittemore
27. C.C. Chapman
28. Cam Beck
29. Casper Willer
30. Cathleen Rittereiser
31. Cathryn Hrudicka
32. Cedric Giorgi
33. Charles Sipe
34. Chris Brown
35. Chris Cree
36. Chris Kieff
37. Chris Wilson
38. Christina Kerley
39. Connie Bensen
40. Connie Reece
41. Corentin Monot
42. Craig Wilson
43. Dan Schawbel
44. Dan Sitter
45. Daniel Honigman
46. Daria Radota Rasmussen
47. Darren Herman
48. Dave Davison
49. David Armano
50. David Berkowitz
51. David Koopmans
52. David Meerman Scott
53. David Petherick
54. David Reich
55. David Weinfeld
56. David Zinger
57. Deanna Gernert
58. Deborah Brown
59. Dennis Price
60. Derrick Kwa
61. Dino Demopoulos
62. Doug Haslam
63. Doug Meacham
64. Doug Mitchell
65. Douglas Hanna
66. Douglas Karr
67. Drew McLellan
68. Duane Brown
69. Dustin Jacobsen
70. Dylan Viner
71. Ed Brenegar
72. Ed Cotton
73. Efrain Mendicuti
74. Ellen Weber
75. Eric Nehrlich
76. Eric Peterson
77. Ernie Mosteller
78. Faris Yakob
79. Fernanda Romano
80. Francis Anderson
81. G.L. Hoffman
82. Gareth Kay
83. Gary Cohen
84. Gaurav Mishra
85. Gavin Heaton
86. Geert Desager
87. George Jenkins
88. Gianandrea Facchini
89. Gordon Whitehead
90. Greg Verdino
91. Gretel Going
92. Hillel Cooperman
93. Hugh Weber
94. J. Erik Potter
95. James Gordon-Macintosh
96. Jamey Shiels
97. Jasmin Tragas
98. Jason Oke
99. Jay Ehret
100. Jeanne Dininni
101. Jeff De Cagna
102. Jeff Gwynne & Todd Cabral
103. Jeff Noble
104. Jeff Wallace
105. Jennifer Warwick
106. Jenny Meade
107. Jeremy Fuksa
108. Jeremy Heilpern
109. Jeroen Verkroost
110. Jessica Hagy
111. Joanna Young
112. Joe Pulizzi
113. John Herrington
114. John Moore
115. John Rosen
116. John Todor
117. Jon Burg
118. Jon Swanson
119. Jonathan Trenn
120. Jordan Behan
121. Julie Fleischer
122. Justin Foster
123. Karl Turley
124. Kate Trgovac
125. Kathryn Fleming
126. Katie Chatfield
127. Katie Konrath
128. Kenny Lauer
129. Keri Willenborg
130. Kevin Jessop
131. Kristin Gorski
132. Lewis Green
133. Lois Kelly
134. Lori Magno
135. Louise Manning
136. Luc Debaisieux
137. Mario Vellandi
138. Mark Blair
139. Mark Earls
140. Mark Goren
141. Mark Hancock
142. Mark Lewis
143. Mark McGuinness
144. Matt Dickman
145. Matt J. McDonald
146. Matt Moore
147. Michael Karnjanaprakorn
148. Michelle Lamar
149. Mike Arauz
150. Mike McAllen
151. Mike Sansone
152. Mitch Joel
153. Neil Perkin
154. Nettie Hartsock
155. Nick Rice
156. Oleksandr Skorokhod
157. Ozgur Alaz
158. Paul Chaney
159. Paul Hebert
160. Paul Isakson
161. Paul McEnany
162. Paul Tedesco
163. Paul Williams
164. Pet Campbell
165. Pete Deutschman
166. Peter Corbett
167. Phil Gerbyshak
168. Phil Lewis
169. Phil Soden
170. Piet Wulleman
171. Rachel Steiner
172. Reginald Adkins
173. Richard Huntington
174. Rishi Desai
175. Robert Hruzek
176. Roberta Rosenberg
177. Robyn McMaster
178. Roger von Oech
179. Rohit Bhargava
180. Ron Shevlin
181. Ryan Barrett
182. Ryan Karpeles
183. Ryan Rasmussen
184. Sam Huleatt
185. Sandy Renshaw
186. Scott Goodson
187. Scott Monty
188. Scott Townsend
189. Scott White
190. Sean Howard
191. Sean Scott
192. Seni Thomas
193. Seth Gaffney
194. Shama Hyder
195. Sheila Scarborough
196. Sheryl Steadman
197. Simon Payn
198. Sonia Simone
199. Spike Jones
200. Sreeraj Menon
201. Stanley Johnson
202. Stephen Collins
203. Stephen Landau
204. Stephen Smith
205. Steve Bannister
206. Steve Hardy
207. Steve Portigal
208. Steve Roesler
209. Steve Woodruff
210. Steven Verbruggen
211. Sue Edworthy
212. Susan Bird
213. Susan Gunelius
214. Susan Heywood
215. Tammy Lenski
216. Terrell Meek
217. Thomas Clifford
218. Thomas Knoll
219. Tim Brunelle
220. Tim Connor
221. Tim Jackson
222. Tim Mannveille
223. Tim Tyler
224. Timothy Johnson
225. Tinu Abayomi-Paul
226. Toby Bloomberg
227. Todd Andrlik
228. Troy Rutter
229. Troy Worman
230. Uwe Hook
231. Valeria Maltoni
232. Vandana Ahuja
233. Vanessa DiMauro
234. Veronique Rabuteau
235. Wayne Buckhanan
236. William Azaroff
237. Yves Van Landeghem

The 238th reason is that the money goes to charity!

Thanks to Ade Olonoh at Ponyfish for putting together the scraping I needed to get the RSS feed off of all the available sites!

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