unbelievably excited about conference this week

Practicing on the eee pc keyboard -- I can't wait to find out the web 2.0 personality this year. Each year it's different -- waggles back and forth between Ruby and KM justifications. Last year, every presentation genuflected to Sharepoint. Mash ups before that. And through it all runs the political, nearly religious belief in the wisdom of the crowd. Fantastic -- it's just the same in insurance, only we call it the law of large numbers. I don't know how Americans can deny this manifest truth...