Sunday at ALA, Smackdown & Media-less Multimedia Events
Sunday has been an on again, off again conference day for me, with a web 2.0 smackdown by Joyce Valenza and friends being the highlight. Joyce ran a swift & informative session complete with a back channel chat room for those of us who liked to be overstimulated. The wiki for the session has some great links.
Other than that, and the plethora of fabulous authors signing books in the stacks, it’s been a bust. I’ve walked out on two sessions today, both of which were supposed to feature web tools but neither of which had internet connections.
ALA, please.
There’s only wireless in one of the buildings here and my hotel charges for access, so my connectivity is spotty. I’d really, really like the speakers to have access at least. After helping the IT “support” person change the resolution on a Mac, I sprinted back down to the other building to hear Junot Diaz’s talk, but he didn’t show up. So I’ve given up on real information today and now I’ve joined the other power vampires scattered on the floor in the hallway and am simply awaiting the book cart drill teams.
(That is not me pictured getting my book signed, I wish it was. I might be a geek, but I can’t wait in a 3 hour line.)
Here's one for the other fangirls