So, I was sitting at a table and the fellow sitting next to me
looks over and says "hi Sam! I've been following your weblog for
six months or so. I'm Dave Shea".
Seeing the blank look on my face, he says, "you don't know who I
am, do you?". I pause for a second, and say no.
The look of instant recognition on my face must have been very
obvious. He said, thanks, and he gets that a lot. He needs to
work on the name recognition thing.
I said he does very good work. He thanked me again.
Later I bumped into Matthew Mullenweg, and the story is very
similar. He introduced himself to me by name, and I didn't know who
he was. He then told me that we had talked on IRC, but I still
couldn't place him. He then said that he was the
WordPress guy, and that I was
able to place. Come to find out that he is
photomatt. Why didn't he just
say so? ;-)
I could go on, but the story is the same. We know each
other through our blogs. Conferences should have a place for
an irc nick and blog name on their badges. Perhaps someday
soon this will happen, but I kinda doubt it will happen at SXSW any
time soon. This conference is
blogger unfriendly. Who'd a thunk it. Free
wireless, but power is unavailable.
Power is unavailable in the conference rooms or in the
hallway. I'm told that there are special rooms where you can
get power. Kinda like smokers rooms for us network
adicts.
As I wind down for the night, it begins to bother me that David
Shea follows my blog. A master of CSS design following the
blog of somebody who's design is so... visually primitive.
Update: Matthew Mullweg (who I have chatted with on IRC and
is an author of Wordpress, wrote a blog entry entitled:
Have we Met?
In it, he lists the people he have met at SXSW, and I am not
on the list. Hmmm. Now I am wondering, did I miss the name, or
did I really meet Matthew or was it another IRC user who works on
Workpress? The location was Frog's, and the time was 9pm.
Update: According to Cory,
it is now OK to plug in!
Update: I now met with Matthew, and have confirmed that it was him I
met at Frog's. He has since updated his badge with an insert that says
both Photomatt and WordPress.
Aggregation is an interesting equalizer... You needn't worry about the design when it's understood that what matters around here is the content. Thanks for the kind words, nice to meet you finally.
Geez! $90 to use the power outlets? A ripoff if I've ever heard one.
Now the conference I'm attending, in the ACES (Computer Science) Building at UT, a few miles up the road from you, has power and ethernet at every seat, in addition to wireless.
Unfortunately, they have cruddy, useless whiteboards, instead of proper blackboards, so that the speakers have been reduced to writing on paper, projected onto a screen with a document camera. (Damned Computer Scientist! Probably do all their presentations in PowerPoint; the whiteboards are pure window-dressing.)
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