First and foremost, I want to send a shoutout to all my teammates on the Evanston Ultimate team who are going to Madison tomorrow for the frisbee tournment. Go forth, kick cheesehead derriére, and think of me.

Secondly, the conference has been going well, all things considered. Last night was disappointing at first, because I got bounced from the Rock The Blogosphere party, being underage and all. However, I was soon rescued by Dad, Halley, and Chris, and we went off to go hang with Joi. Today, after a keynote where our host was compared to Socrates, the journalism panel kicked off with some quite amusing introductions, such as Glenn Reynolds, "the Dirk Diggler of hit count" who gets "more hits than Adam Curry in an Amsterdam coffeehouse". The panel (Ed Cone, Glenn Reynolds, Josh Marshall, and Scott Rosenberg) raised some interesting questions, such as whether or not bloggers should get the same constitutional pretection as professional journalists. We then moved on to the education panel, with Lance Knobel, my Dad (AKMA Adam), Pat Delaney, Jenny Levine, Kaye Trammel, and Brian Weatherson. While tackling topics like how blogs are used in the classroom, I had my 15 seconds of fame as I stood for the mike and responded to another commentor, saying that while blogging students should not be put down by being told that nobody will read their blog, a certain amount of perspective should be taught. As such, I myself feel quite proud to reach my 15 or so daily hits, even though I don't reach other's standards. I received applause and laughter throughout, and afterwards people came up to me and complimented my blog, which just gives me warm fuzzies all over. We stopped for lunch before coming back to hear the Cluetrain panel, with Chris Lydon, Jim Moore, Doc Searls, Elizabeth Spiers, and Adam Curry, which brings me up to the present, as the political panel (Dave Winer, Mathew Gross, Joe Jones, Cameron Barret)is starting. For more details on the goings-on, try the BloggerCon site, and from there you can link to some of the several other attendees who are doing a much better job of recording the day's events than I.

Third, I apologize to all who couldn't reach my site earlier, the server apparently was having some downtime.

Tunes: "Always", Saliva; "Takeoffs and Landings", The Ataris; "Pills", New York Dolls; "Deer Dance", System of a Down.