Thursday already…the pace is such that if you choose to be, you’re really busy, moving from one talk to the next, to the expo hall, chatting with people, and before you know it, the evening’s activites are on you.  That’s my way of excusing the fact that I’m behind in my blogging. 🙂

In addition to some really well-presented keynotes on some interesting topics, I attended some sessions that reinforces my faith in the ability of the organizers to attract (and keep attracting) great speakers with thought-provoking things to say, or vendors with some interesting products or business models (note that this isn’t universal – there’s always those few you listen to or talk to that makes you walk away, scratching your head, wondering how *that* works.).

I attended talks on “Open Source Microblogging”, “MindTouch Deki”, “CSS for High Performance JavaScript UI”, “Open Source as Liberal Art”, and “Machine Learning for Knowledge Extraction from Wikipedia & Other Semantically Weak Sources”.  Like the previous day, I’ll be back to flesh out some of the ideas and things I learned or plan on using – there was some great stuff here.

The day ended with the SourceForge Community Awards held at the Jupiter hotel.  The event was sponsered by ThinkGeek (among others), and we ended up getting a nice bag with some swag goodies.  Overall, pretty fun and decent food.