Geodog

On my way to sunny San Diego

I'm writing this on the plane to the O'Reilly Digital Democracy Teach-In and Emerging Technologies conference in sunny San Diego. Sitting just behind me on the plane and reading news on paper is Tim O'Reilly, whose generosity made it possible for me to attend the conferences. I infer that he must have a lot of confidence in Rael and the smooth workings of the whole O'Reilly organization to wait to show up until the night before a 4 day conference he is putting on.

I'm excited about learning more about new technologies, and encouraged that technologists are thinking about how they can improve our badly wounded democracy, as well as catching up with a lot of people that I know only from email and their writing.

Unlike a lot of other people, I'm not particularly good at writing while people are speaking -- I find that it distracts me from thinking about what they are saying, so I probably won't write much during the conference. I leave that up to the usual suspects, who can type faster than I can speak, and who manage to add decent commentary as well.