Sunday May 18 6:42 PM
Jeremy from TrendHunter.com is talking about some of his marketing successes. I don't know how cool he is, but right now he's talking about SmithCorona and energy drinks. Wifi rules. I'm sitting here and there's plenty of signal, which is good because even though coolhunting has been an interest of mine since Gibson's Pattern Recognition, he's not telling me how to hunt cool. So instead I've checked my Google Analytics, read a few emails, and missed dinner plans with a few of the presenters that I'd met at the opening reception.

On the bright side, I met an Australian, and found a few people that I'd met last year. Some of them remembered me, which is cool. They scheduled the thing between last classes and keynote and neglected to provide nourishment other than beer. Thus the lack of attention span at the keynote.

Note to self: live-blogging is not drunk-blogging. Be very careful.

This morning I took Stephanie Sullivan's CSS class, which was aimed more at print designers moving to the web. There were still a few good choice bits, such as adding zoom: 1 to a style to see if it fixes bugs in IE. She also talked about SPRY, which is the built-in AJAX for Dreamweaver.

My next class was Jim Krause's photography class, which was really interesting. I talked to some of the other attendees, and they seemed on the fence about it. I think they missed the point: he's not teaching photography, he's explaining how you have to use your native creativity in approaching photography to achieve interesting results. It was more about how to build your own stock photo collection by setting restrictions on your photography: only take photos of a fork, with one light.

I really liked it. I took a photo of the paint in the crosswalk that looked like a duck. I'll see about getting it up later.

Now the keynote is using audience participation. I hate that. Put the fourth wall back up and let me sit here and blog.