Wayan Vota, a blogger fan favorite from Metroblogging DC, has some very exciting news: He’ll be appearing on 60 Minutes this evening for a segment with Lesley Stahl on MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte’s progress with the One Laptop Per Child initiative.

“In what may be a great case study on how blogging now influences major media outlets and confirmation that I am in the blogging big leagues, 60 Minutes will be focusing on the other Web site I publish: OLPC News,” Vota writes.

But is he nervous about the appearance?

“Luckily, if I make a fool of myself, I am headed to Nairobi on Tuesday for two weeks, and I’ll be able to hide out until the mobs dissipate,” says he. “If I come off the expert, I might just become a blogging consultant. I create enough content to be one already!”