It’s official: Banana 2 conference of Asian American bloggers set for Feb. 26 in LA

The Banana 2 conference of Asian American Pacific Islander bloggers is now officially set for Saturday, February 26 at CBS Studios in Studio City, Calif. If you haven't heard of Banana, you can check out my blog post and photos from the first Banana gathering, which was an informal affair in late 2009. It was mostly one very large panel on the USC campus in LA, with most of us meeting up for dinner afterwards near Little Tokyo. This year's Banana will be an all-day conference with a handful of panels and breakout sessions, as well as a reception afterwards with entertainment (more details to come). And it'll be held at CBS Studios in Studio City, with (I think) the reception planned for a New York street set for "CSI:New York." Cool, huh? I'm organizing a panel titled "Bananas, Twinkies, Coconuts & more: The rainbow of the AAPI blogosphere." Here's a draft description: The Asian American blogosphere (as represented in the richness of Banana's panels) covers a lot of ground, from the political to the whimsical, from foodies to Asian pop fanatics to bloggers that focus on specific communities. AAPI blogs can be about the Asian experience or exclusively about the Asian American experience.There are even blogs by Asian Americans that have nothing to do with Asian American culture, values or identity. What does it mean to be an Asian American blogger? Other panels include: