Betsy Aoki's WebLog

Blogher I came home from Chicago absolutely knackered, as Eileen Brown would put it. The humidity and the time zone and the plane full of germs knocked the wind out of me. And then of course the inevitable post-trip-laundry-disorder sets in and you...

Nights before I have to "present" in any way at conferences are always weird. I dream I miss the shuttle bus to the convention center, etc. I was up at 7 am Chicago time (that's 5 am in Seattle) and managed to eat breakfast, get to the keynote/general...

After the incredible delayed plane and luggage hunt, Chicago emerged as fielding the wet-warm-towel humidity that makes you wish you didn't have sweat glands. Fortunately, there were two drinking events to make up for it. I've managed to reconnect...

Reading about how the Internet went down (well a key datacenter went out ) as my butt is parked in an airport, waiting for Chicago's weather to clear up, I am reminded how spoiled and how humbled us tech people can be by...well, real life. I click...

First off, it was sad to see Josh Ledgard go...although in working on the sites that Telligent handles for Microsoft, he's not going too too far away. Josh was one of the earliest members of "Drinking about Community" and someone I could always count...