today was the blitz that is barcamp. for the second year in a row the wifey and i got to take part. it was fun to run into tech friends that we generally never see but online, others for the first time. i kept a rolling log of notes from the sessions for those with a lot of extra time.
highlights for me go like such; hanging with erin for a day doing geek stuff, laughing with at chris and his utter geekdom in geocaching, hearing some new tech ideas, going tweet mad & almost being affirmed for it. my favorite session is hard to say, but david bullock's with the barack 2.0 analysis was pretty cool. we've seen all the obama campaign stuff in action, to see it analyzed and the methodology behind it is insightful.
other thoughts? this years barcamp was way highend compared to last year venue wise. i liked the raw nature of last years venue at exit-in, though temperature wise today was much better. don't get me wrong, i liked the space for this years unconference. last year though it felt more like you were a part of something very organic, and this was getting more like corporate. i liked the four/three various camps compared to the two last year (though last year we stayed in the main venue). the geekdom was more basic than some of the stuff i experienced last year. purposefully erin & went to some of the basic stuff, but even the ones that we thought might be big challenges were more scratch the surface stuff. there were some stuff i sat in on last year that was so out there for me that i still think about it.
what is possibly going to come back to haunt me? dave interviewed me candidly while hanging out in the halls as part of a promo for a potential memphis barcamp. i didn't say anything stupid, really, i didn't. but upon further review i had a nice pimple starting to take space above my lip, and his camera was hd.. that won't work well for my ego.
other thing i realized from barcamp... i really need to just buckle down and do the site update of this blog that i have talked about for like 8 months.
looking forward to next year
