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February 21, 2007
Late Night at the IMA
Once the afternoon sessions wrapped up at the IMA conference, many of us headed over to a reception and dinner at the top of the Prudential building - nice view as always. It was a relaxing event. Live jazz. Good company. Crab cakes. Cash bar. (Three out of four ain't bad.) I wasn't able to linger for dessert, though, as I had to run back to the hotel to rendezvous with Brendan Greeley to work on our presentations for Thursday. We had planned to do a pair of powerpoints, but concluded that since we were going to be talking about tools like wikis and tagging, we'd be remissed if we didn't use them as the organizing principles of our talk. Powerpoint out, MediaWiki in.
By the time it hit 11pm, we concluded we'd gotten enough done to worry about the rest tomorrow - and John Bracken kept emailing us about drinks, social director that he is. So we went downstairs and joined him, along with Doc Searls, David Sifry and a bunch of other folks who whung out and chatted about RSS longer than normal people ever would. Most intriguing idea: Sondra Russell of CPB wondered aloud why no one has made it possible for people to receive credit report updates via RSS.
Things wrapped up soon after midnight. The bar closed, and a security guard booted us out, telling us to take our drinks upstairs. Move along, move along.... -andy
Tags: Brendan Greeley | CPB | credit reports | David Sifry | Doc Searls | drinks | IMA2007 | John Bracken | MediaWiki | Powerpoint | RSS | socializing | Sondra Russell
Posted by acarvin at February 21, 2007 8:19 AM
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