BlogHer '09, BlogHer's fifth annual conference, will be our biggest conference yet. Every year we have sold out and dealt with the dreaded waiting list. This year we sold out BlogHer '09's original capacity in mid-March, which left us with lots of community members wanting in.

You may know Kristy Sammis from She Just Walks Around With It as BlogHer's own former Events Manager. For those of you who only know Kristy as our Events manager, and not as a life blogger, you have been missing out! And we are thrilled to introduce you to her comic stylings via this week's BlogHer of the Week post, Making It Work for Me and My Pelvix.

Today, we are thrilled to announce the final selections for the BlogHer '09 Community Keynote, our second annual Community Keynote, taking place on Friday July 24th. Just like last year, we received hundreds of submissions, and I have to start with a shout-out of gratitude to our tremendous Community Keynote grand poobah: Eden Kennedy from Fussy And the rest of the Community Keynote committee: Jes Ferris and Lori Luna from BlogHer

For a variety of reasons, real and imagined, I tend to be extremely aware of my surroundings at all times. While I'm completely unobservant about landmarks, geographical markings, directions (hence my love for my GPS) I'm always keenly aware of people. And the dark shadows where they may be lurking. I'm aware of it literally, when I walk city streets, and I'm aware of it figuratively. There's a word for that, and I think this week's BlogHer of the Week, Schmutzie, knows it too... Hypervigilance: /hy·per·vig·i·lance/ (hi″per-vij´ĭ-lans)

Under two weeks ago, we announced BlogHer Food '09, our first foray into a food blogging event, and our second topic-focused event, after BlogHer Business. We have two announcements about BlogHer Food today: