“If you build it, they will come,” whispered Kevin Costner in the movie that runs in my head. And so I’ve been hammering away at the keys, simultaneously updating and applying my slowly expanding knowledge of Wordpress, PHP, and HTML…all in an attempt to revamp the Meridian experience.

It was five minutes till 9am and the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF was already brimming with 20 and 30 somethings eager for the daylong Wordcamp San Francisco to begin. While I noticed scattered heads of gray hair, the vast majority of attendees were young; many of whom wore glasses and scanned their laptops and iPhones before the first speaker took the stage. I overheard the group behind me discussing how long they had been blogging and what they write about. A blonde girl to my front left quickly updated …