Friday confessional 2-13-2009

Posted on 10:18 pm | Posted in random | Posted by Angie | 7 Comments

The confession today is that I’m so sick, being upright is a struggle. I flew home yesterday (3 flights total and 12 hours of travel time/layovers) with winds gusting to 50 mph and a raging case of the flu. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. Yeah.

I’ve never been so happy to be home, where I could huddle in bed and have my husband coddle me. And I was even happier (to be home safely) when I woke up this morning and heard about the plane that crashed here on the East Coast, with no survivors. So I’m trying hard not to whine too much about how nauseous I am or what a miserable travel experience I had.

Anyway, rather than the rather massive page of links I normally give you, I’m going to link you to some things from the conference I attended this week, the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City. Really, it was a fabulous conference and it for exceeded my expectations. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did, but I attribute that to my inner geek, which silently squeed in joy at every keynote and panel I attended. But mostly I attribute it to the amazing people I got to meet and chat with, none of whom got that glazed-eye look when I talked about things like DRM, social media, target audience, eink devices or other things regarding digital publishing. If anything, they were even more passionate about it than me!

Tools of Change conference notes from Mark Coker

The Tools of Change twitter feed and a raw dump of the feed from Andrew Savakis

The best of TOC is available as a free book here

See my interpretive dance

A post with some thoughts on my (our) panel along with a link to a video interview with SB Sarah.

Kassia gave a small preview of what we’d be chatting about in the panel.

SarahW has a post on what she got out of the panel.

Links to some of the incredible people I met at Tools of Change:

Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com

Richard Nash of Soft Skull

Kirk Biglione–awesome husband to Kassia Kroszer of Booksquare, who is equally as awesome. Individually, they’re slightly frightening but together they’re awe-inspiring and intimidating as hell.

Colleen Lindsey, who I met at the Monday night TweetUp and swore I’d met before. Very, very funny and bright lady.

Of course there were many others, but since this short post has now taken me all day to write thanks to the stupid flu, perhaps I should post it before the day is over?

And on a related side note, the #1 thing I learned from the TOC conference? I want to be smart like that. Oh my god those people are bright, amazing and talented. I wonder if God could suddenly endow me thusly?

But seriously, if you have any interest in techno-geekery and digital content, TOC is a conference you should think about for 2010. It rocked!

My Advice to Publishers at the OReilly Conference (chrisbrogan.com)
Adobe eBook support coming to iPhone via Stanza (blogs.adobe.com)

Tags: conferences, Tools of Change

7 Responses to “Friday confessional 2-13-2009”

Kassia Krozser February 13, 2009 at 11:58 pm #

“Slightly” frightening? I aim for terrifying at a bare minimum. So sorry you were sick (I felt a bit dizzy and queasy yesterday, but attributed to a scary cab ride). You forgot to mention how awesome you were on our panel. I am still letting the “it’s the book, not the format” idea reverberate in my mind. ‘Cause you know, I buy the book, not the format. And that’s really something to remember.

Same city, next year?
Michelle B February 14, 2009 at 4:42 am #

I hope you feel better soon, Angie!
Dena February 14, 2009 at 6:57 am #

I hope you feel better real soon Angie. Thanks for the Friday condfessional especially with you feeling so bad.
Kristen February 14, 2009 at 7:44 am #

Feel better! And happy Valentine’s Day!
Maria February 14, 2009 at 9:35 am #

Glad you’re home safe, Angie.

Rest up. We’ll still be here when you get back up to speed.
rebyj February 14, 2009 at 9:49 am #

Feel better soon! Kudos to your hubby for coddling you. My man would probably toss me a roll of toilet paper for nose blowing and a bottle of water and then hide for a few days so he wouldn’t catch it LOL

Good info on all the links but can I just say WOW I was quite blown away that Smartbitches had 16 MILLION hits in January.

I liked the comments about the Kindle’s back falling off and how useless the wireless feature is outside of the USA. All Sony has to do now is become affordable to people like me and I’ll snap one of their readers up in a heartbeat!
Angie February 15, 2009 at 8:31 am #

Same city, next year?

I’m going to try my darndest!

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