Saturday, August 20, 2005

Hello world. Hello again! 

Here's a movie of the crowd at the Hillside Club. 

I've arrived in Berkeley. The traffic was awful, but we made it, the room is full and lots of energy. The food is here before, which is cool so we're taking a break before starting.  

Scoble's blogging Barcamp. Sounds awesome. But I did the right thing, it turns out, by staying at the hotel this afternoon. Slept right through. Had weird dreams about Bay Area driving (I hate the drivers here, more on that later) and driving over the Triboro Bridge in NYC. Even though the dreams were vivid high altitude dreams (weird because I'm at sea level now) I feel very rested and ready to kick some OPML butt this evening. I think it's going to be webcast, if not just filmed. One way or the other there will be a record. Off to Beserkeley. See you on the other side of the bay!  

Les Bain will be there tonight. Unfortunately Woz will not be there tonight, nor will Tim O'Reilly (he is welcome to come, of course). We're still hoping Ray Ozzie will be there, and I just heard that Wes Boyd who started MoveOn.Org will be there. Cooolio! 

Great must-read column by Frank Rich in the NY Times.  

Ooops, I just checked in with Mike Arrington who's over at BarCamp and he says it's quiet there until 3PM, so maybe I won't make it there after all. If I went at 3, I'd have to leave for Berkeley as soon as I got there.  

Sorry for the light posts. It's been a whirlwind weekend, up in the city for meetings, then down the peninsula for family stuff, then in Palo Alto for dinner, never made it to BarCamp, too much schmoozing at dinner. Today I have to get some exercise, then head up to the camp, then back up to Berkeley, and on stage for the fourth OPML Roadshow at 7PM, followed by dinner with all the OPMLers. Whew. Tomorrow, I sleep, for sure.  

Cliff Gerrish will be there tonight.  

I'm in a coffee shop in Palo Alto with Robert Scoble, Steve Gillmor, Chris Pirillo and a bunch of other geeks. We're having deeply philosophical discussion. Scoble just said he's changing the name of his comments on his blog to The Mud Pit. Very nice!