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I was up till 5am reading blog entries last night. I went through 3000 entries in about 12 hours, including breaks and getting other chores done like eating.

Short story:

The second day of Gnomedex Steve Rubel, a blogging superstar, was sitting in front of me.

Finally, I thought, I'm going to see how this superman of bloggers manages to read so many blogs, blog about the best of what he finds, and get other work and email done at the same time.

My discoveries never happened, because instead, Steve worked on a PowerPoint presentation, which he and Chris Sloop, founder of WeatherBug, presented later that afternoon. It was on PR and Blogging, and it had everybody talking.

Steve Rubel's blogging productivity continues to be a closely guarded secret that I have not deciphered, and in all likeliness, Dan Brown may feature in his next best seller novel.

I downloaded Skype when Scoble first blogged about it on September 12, 2003. I didn't use it because I was afraid - it came from the same team that brought us the spyware/adware hell called Kazaa.

At Gnomedex I was one of a few people that didn't use Skype. Arieanna Foley of Blogaholics and BloggingHelp said she gets all of consulting jobs through Skype. KK+ of Bryght asked me what my Skype address was. That was it. I finally installed it.

My user account is dylan_greene.

Then things went bad... I was going to have it import my Outlook 2003 contacts, but instead I got this fun error:

Access violation at address 00BD3F80 in module 'Skype.exe'. Read of address 049BC000.

What does that mean? What am I supposed to do?

I'm going to try this (conflict with DEP - Data Execution Prevention - the only match on Skype's suppot site), but it requires a reboot, which I don't feel like doing. I already rebooted once this quarter.

Skype (or Windows, not sure who is really responsible for the error message) - can you make your error text a tad more understandable? Thanks!

Here are a few of the people I met at Gnomedex:

Companies (large and small):

• Matt Mullenweg - creator of WordPress, senior product manager at CNET
• Greg Stein - tech lead at Google of Blogger, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation
• Nick Bradbury - architect of client products for NewsGator, creator of FeedDemon, TopStyle, and HomeSite
• Tantek Celik - senior technologist for Technorati, co-founder of Microformats.org, and inventor of the "box model hack"
• Mark Fletcher - creator of Bloglines and ONElist (now known as Yahoo! Groups)
• Salim Ismail - CEO of PubSub
• Bob Wyman - CTO of PubSub
• Richard Treadway - chief marketing officer at PubSub
• Dave McClure - director of marketing at SimplyHired
• Roland Tanglao - Bryght
• Kris Krug - Bryght
• John Goodall - LiteFeeds
• Darren Inouya - LiteFeeds
• Michael Buckbee - FeedMail
• Gerry Caballero - strategic alliances for AAA California
• phillip m. torrone (pt) - assocate editor of Make Magazine, internet strategy analyst for creative firm Fallon Worldwide
• Tris Hussey - Qumana Software
• Ianiv Schweber - Qumana Software and Blogaholics Consulting
• Arieanna Foley - Blogaholics Consulting
• Dan Gillmor - Founder of Bayosphere, and much more
• Matt Westervelt - founder of Metrix, and Seattle Wireless, the first free community-run wireless networks
• Derek Miller - senior program manger for Navarik
• Steve Rubel - vice president client services at CooperKatz
• Brian Edwards - account director at McKenzie Worldwide
• Kevin Goldsmith - Adobe
• Christy Andrade - video and webcast producer for CNet
• David Henderson - vice president of sales for Vistrio
• Rakesh Agrawal - President and CEO of SnapStream Media
• David Robertson - Covenant Technology Services
• Jeremy Hubert - director of operations at Illanti Industries
• Philip DesAutels - WuhWuhWuh.com (doesn't work at time of press)

Bloggers:

• Dave Winer - Creator of the RSS format, and many other blogging-releated concepts
• Marc Canter - Founder of Macromedia, co-founder of ourmedia.org
• Jason Laskodi - JasonsPage.net
• Steve Duncan - Lornitropia.net
• Lee LeFever - Founder of CommonCraft
• Tom Sayles - TomS Words of Wisdom
• Robert Scoble - the geek aggrigator
• Chris Pirillo - the lockergnome

Podcasters:

• Greg Narain - co-founder of Sparkcasting and SparkID
• Robert Walch - founder of podCast411

Vloggers (Video Blogs):

• Clint Sharp - Clint Sharp’s Blog an’ Vlog
• Bre Pettis - I Make Things
• Sean Gilligan - vBlog Central
• Peter Grondal - Peter's Gnomedex 2005 videos

Education:

• Kathy Gill - senior lecturer at University of Washington

I know I've missed people - I didn't mean to, this list is from the business cards I collected. Since many people blog, podcast, vlog, and program as a hobbie (like myself until a month ago), they don't have business cards for their venture.

For a full list of Gnomdex 2005 attendees, check out the Gnomedex Wiki.

Gnomedex is now over, but the coverage and content exchange has only just started. I'm still in the Seattle-area, visiting friends, so I'm not as up-to-date with my coverage as others that attended.

Scoble: "Google News is reporting 243 news articles about Microsoft's RSS announcements on Friday"

I'm at Microsoft, using a PC at their museum to add captions to the Gnomedex pictures. I'm 200 emails 2500 blog posts behind, but already a couple people have asked who's who in the photos, and I better do it now before I forget who's who.

This morning I visited Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson, or officially Director of Programming for XBOX Live. He presented me with an awesome Major Nelson XBOX Live headset, and showed me the original XBOX working prototype. He didn't have an XBOX 360 to show off, but we did have a good chat about Gnomedex, which he wasn't able to attend, and upcoming features for the next XBOX.

Microsoft is giving a demo of Longhorn and showing off, for the first time in public, the new Internet Explorer 7.0. Of course, it has an RSS reader/aggrigator built in - but that's not the cool part. The cool part is that the RSS system is part of Longhorn, so any Windows application has access to the data. This means that you don't even need to use IE to use the feeds and you can use 3rd party programs that can take advantage of the feeds. Why is that cool? Keep reading...

The first real IE 7 screenshot? It's showing an RSS feed. Where's the tabs?

The first demo they subscribed to a calendar of events, and if the times, dates, or locations change, your calendar is automatically updated.

The next demo is a screensaver that uses a photoblog RSS feed for the photos and captions.

The final demo showed off "lists" - and the example they used involved subscribing to friends' Amazon wishlists, and showed how you can sort and view the data using a sample DHTML-built application.

Finally they announced that their new standards would be released through Creative Commons, to which Larry Lessig had a video announcment saying how pleased he was with Microsoft in doin this.

The new standard - Windows RSS Platform Architecural Overview - Simple List Extensions specification - will be published on the IE Blog soon and Scoble uploaded an hour long (!) video to Channel 9.

The Internet connection is flooded with 300 people all trying to update their blogs at once so I don't have the photos just yet, but they are uploading.

Scoble is live-blogging Gnomedex too.

I'm leaving in a few minutes for Seattle for Gnomedex.

Today I picked up business cards, as you can see in the photo. What is DABU? Meet me at the conference and I'll give you a demo. You might be pleasantly surprised.

There's a Gnomedex Wiki - a web site about Gnomedex that anybody can edit. I added my hotel information, created the Ride Share page, and a topic on Post-Gnomedex Weekend Plans.

I'm also beta testing RSS and Podcasting inventor Dave Winer's new OPML Editor - a group outline program which he will probably announce at Gnomedex and has great potential.