I'm Halfway To Cambodia Bloggers Summit Goal!

And, I'd like to thank these wonderful people who contributed to the campaign!

Celeste Wroblewski
Alan Levine
Grégoire Japiot
Shirley Williams
Ruby Sinreich
Sean Stannard-Stockton
Laura Chambers
Allison Hewlitt
Thomas Taylor

Twitter isn't half bad as a fundraising tool ... more about that later.

And, a special thanks again to Liz Sanger and this time with link love. I've never met Liz in person.  We met via Facebook and contributed to my online campaign.    There is a connection to something that Tara Hunt  mentioned at BlogHer.  She asked a great question about "virtual gift economy."   She mentioned Lewis Hyde's work and referenced the virtual gifts on Facebook.   

More later.

If you're on the fence, please help me reach goal.  I made a reservation on Singapore airways and the customer rep felt sorry for me - so he excited the reservation without having to make me pay upfront.   I have until August 10th to raise the other half.