Liz’s notes on the recent O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference, even though she says they are sketchy, give a lot of food for thought (and they are funny, but it probably helps if you can imagine Liz recounting them, arms-a-waving) – I’m looking forward to her promised post-4th-of-July reflections.
Overall, it sounds like it was a fascinating carpet-mindbombing of the state-of-the-art of geographical technology and it’s effects on business and society. Wish I’d seen Nathan Eagle, and Kevin Slavin in particular.
One line in her notes will be thought about (and probably written about) much more by me:
“as always, they [O’Reilly] think that the difference between the desires of early and late adopters is one of size, not kind”
Crossing the Chasm was first published 14 years ago. Pre-web, pre-mobile. And yet the tech industry is still set in it’s belief that the mainstream will inevitably, steadily, globally – follow the alpha-geek early adopter. Surely it’s about time the Valley’s “Whig” telling of technological progress is tempered with the wiggly nature of human desire.
Petafloptimism 
Well, my notes are “sketchy” because I spent a good half of the conference talking to fascinating people and not listening to the speakers. But yes: I did do my OCD best to capture the speakers I did hear as I heard them.