James Williams' Blog

Due to an air traffic control hold at San Francisco Airport that has delayed my flight until 9:30P, I’m sitting here writting this post whilst sitting "Indian style" a little too close to the trash can than I would like and next to a chatty female in her 20s talking on her phone. It could be worse. Thank God for free Wifi.  I’ll take this unexpected repose to blog about day two of BarCamp San Diego.

As with most of the two day BarCamps I’ve been to(and by most, I mean the other one), the second day is more low-key, chill, and intimate. The hot topic of the day was Twitter with no less than 3 sessions on it: The Great Twitter Debate, Managing Extended Relationships(or something like that) and a third whose title and content don’t make it worth remembering. The Great Twitter Debate, led by @mattsurfs and @jbruin can be viewed here on mattsurfs’ blog. The second one, led by @Madrox I think, focused on how we do things (like define criteria, advanced tagging and/or multiple user roles) to make Twitter work better for us. Coincidentally, just as I was posting the last blog entry, those slides came up in the queue. Great minds think alike I guess. The third, though I’m sure it could have sparked a good discussion under other circumstances, came off as "tell me what you think is cool that Twitter should do so I can take it and make money off it." I’m sure that wasn’t his motive. I fault the delivery not the idea.

So I don’t sound negative, I’ll end with the overnight activities. Of course there was drinking and marathon gaming (GTA IV). There was a Wii Bowling tournament, a bunch of Wii tennis and Mario Kart and some more Extreme Four Square.

Hopefully I’ll make it to SFO tonight but atleast I’m prepared for the worst, I brought my sleeping bag along for BarCamp. :-)

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