Most conferences are only three days long. Today is day four of ISEA and there are days and days left. I’m in a caf?©, regenerating the energy I’ll need to keep at it till Sunday.

I think I’m not meeting a lot of people here. I already got an email from Janne, who was on the boat – only we didn’t know. With a thousand people, no list of participants and no name tags, no wonder.

There are advantages to smallish conferences. Or maybe we should just all have smart tags that light up when you’re near a person whose website you’ve linked to. A different colour for a person whose website is linked by a friend of yours, you know, you could extend that plenty. It’d be really useful.


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