Saturday, February 12, 2005

At 4PM Eastern, I'm back in my hotel, the conference is over. On balance, it was lovely. A room filled with a mix of bloggers and newbies. Lots of journalists. I'd guess a little over 100 people. Heated discussions. Warm weather. Ed Cone is a great moderator, much more relaxed here among his own people. Lots more to say later.  

Rafe Colburn, one of the first bloggers, was at today's conference. It was great to meet him after all these years! 

Conference links.  

Today's word: Cackalacky. 

They are breaking some of the basic rules of BloggerCon-ness. They just plugged Dan Gillmor's book, and the sponsor Bob Young (founder of Red Hat) is giving a schpiel about his new company. Then Dan Gillmor is going to give a speech. I guess I won't say anything about this in the room, but I had to say something here. I won't be calling this a BloggerCon. 

Ruby Sinreich of OrangePolitics.Org is a blogging dynamo. I had dinner last night with Brian Russell and Ruby, very lively, total true believers. Interestingly Ruby has known Doc Searls all her life, she grew up on a commune with Doc and his daughter, who she's still friends with. Doc said (I think) that Ruby and I would hit it off, and that was right. She's feisty, strong-willed and a political tour de force. Brian Russell does podcasts here in Chapel Hill, and did the event on Tuesday.  

Dan Gillmor is in the room blogging the event. 

We the Bloggers of the Great Volunteer State of Tennessee... 

Ed Cone: "Poor Charlotte, trying to be cool but not knowing how." 

The conference has started, 9:15AM Eastern, after a little bit of confusion I have a network connection. If you're in the room and blogging it, send me a pointer and I'll link.  

It's on: Tomorrow at 11AM at Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill, the second-ever Scripting News brunch.