July 2, 2006

The second day of an conference/unconference has a tendency to become a blur. Information overload from the first day and that evening;s party are still percolating in your brain when you are asked once again to focus. I have a bunch of pictures I download to Flickr and a few more from last night that have to wait until I am home and have a two way internet again.

High point of the second day for me was Ethan Kaplan Director of Technology at Warner Brothers Records. He is quite articulate and as a owner of a MFA degree proves once again that the best technologist may be those that are the most well rounded.

Low point of the day was the discussion led by Jeremy Zawodny which came across as a profiling of "older people" as unable to operate the internet or a computer without massive browser rewrites or something. Nowhere in the discussion, up to the point when I found it more interesting to find the bathroom, did any one address that fact that there are whole blocks of people that were not being addressed, like women, african-americans, hispanics, and just about anyone else that was not male, white and 25 to 35. So I went an tried out the XBox 360.

Another great party last night sponsored by Microsoft at the Music Experience Project. If you go hungry at a Chris and Ponzi event you just are not trying. Well the sun is shining in Seattle and I have several hours to kill before this afternoons flight back to reality. Think I'll find the scroll bar and scroll on out of here.

P.S. Oh and I suspect that the number of tech savy 25 to 35 year olds is not a great as everyone thinks.