Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Of Twitter and Conferences

I am attending a couple days of the XML-In-Practice 2008 conference. And one thing I have noticed is a decided lack of laptops. Sure people have them but a lot of them are closed during the sessions. That is in stark contrast to Balisage where almost every attendee has a laptop and is taking notes or searching for a rebuttal to the speaker.

However, I did see that a few people are twittering, myself included. Bob DuCharme, Scott Abel, and Adam Hill have put up several posts each...in Scott's case it appears to be something of a torrent of tweets. The links above will take you to their Twitter home pages but, as Twitter is designed to do, these will have moved on from conference tweets by tomorrow.

If you'd like to get a view of the tweets from the conference try these links:

XML In Practice

#xml2008

The first is mostly used by Scott Abel, the second was coined by Bob DuCharme and picked up by Adam and I.

As usual this is a stream of consciousness stuff like Twitter is prone to be. But I think the intrepid reader might find useful nuggets in there.

I have notes from several of the sessions that I hope to write up on Wednesday after I get back from the conference.