Izea is having their first blogging fest for 2008 on September 11th till the 13th over in Orlando, Florida.  Nice for Izea since they are already located in Florida… but this will be a great chance to connect with other bloggers, meet some of your favorite bloggers, and even learn how to become a become a better blogger. Speaking at the Fest will be Merlin Mann.

Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann is the creator of the website 43 folders which has had a  lot of success.  It’s read daily by over 50,000 people via it’s popular RSS feed.  His work is also published in WIRED, Make, Popular Science, Mac World…

I started liking IZEA after they sent me a nice $1000 check for winning their February blog contest… The money which of course pays school loans and… beer?