I am here. I haven't run into tons of people yet, I'm sitting here eating some breakfast, learning the ropes and blogging in real-time. Real... time.... technology still amazes me sometimes. First session in a half hour is Howard Rheingold, talking about his book Smart Mobs but everyone reading this blog should know him best from The Virtual Community. Lots and lots of fun.

UPDATE: Ran into Jane Pickard and Justin Hall from GameGirlAdvance! Hooray for having friends (although we'd never met). had an interesting discussion with Jane I want to write up later. Basically I can't keep up with the conference - too fast to digest, will take me a bit to get things out into words. But there will be coverage, oh yes, there will be coverage. A billion ideas crammed into your head in a compressed time. Its a good kind of 'ouch'.

I went to the Wednesday panel on DRM, but my machine died for a bit. Here is a better real-time blog then I could ever hope to make.

Many of the folks from the Social Software Alliance (SSA) are here - you should really check it out if you aren't here or even if you are and missed them somehow. I spoke at a session Tim O'Reilly did about stuff on his 'radar', of which what is happening in online games is an example. I'll flesh all this out into a full post. I used PHANK as an example of a player community. I wonder if anyone in Phank was there...