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October 6, 2005

Conferencin'

Web 2.0 is fabulous.

No, really. It is. There are an awful lot of smart people here, each well-versed in the industry and each looking for that next, ineffable thing - the inspiration, the "aha!", the muse, whatever. It adds up to a stunning amount of brainpower, both on-stage and off.

The place is also packed. It's wall-to-wall people around here, which, from a bulk standpoint, is compounded by the fact that everyone's got a laptop (and hence, a laptop bag slung over their shoulder, adding a good 6" of volume to their right or left side). Threading through the common rooms during a break session is a bit treacherous. Part of me thinks I could make a killing selling a small, USB-keychain device with a speaker and a button: press the button, and the speaker just repeats and endless stream of, "Excuse me, coming through, excuse me, excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, sorry about that..."

And not to get off on a rant, here, but I'm sick of sitting. Sick, sick, sick. I'm ready to get up, run around, shout, do anything other than ingest one more snack-time brownie and another cup of weak, hotel-urn coffee. The O'Reilly people have done a fantastic job of giving regular breaks and lunches and whatnot, but, at their core, conferences are really about people sitting on their butts, absorbing information as best they can.

So. I've got some great notes, have met some great people, and am really enthusiastic to see the kind of innovations being demo'd here come to market. In the meantime, though, I've got one more day to go - and I'm finding myself dreaming of the treadmill at the hotel (Karmic retribution, I know...).

Posted by Gavin Shearer at October 6, 2005 4:20 PM. Posted to MSFT.

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