Wow – i’m completely exhausted. I used to be so invincible at conferences, able to leap tall buildings with no sleep. These days, it just ain’t so. But it was amazing to spend a large chunk of time at SIGGRAPH. I have to say that my highlight was going through the art gallery and emerging tech with two small children and witnessing interaction through their eyes. It’s amazing to watch how bored they get when things look too realistic. Of course the picture should move if you rotate the display. Duh. ::laugh::

It saddens me that WiFi has been available at conferences for ?5? years now and still, conferences suck at it. Blogging is difficult to do when you have to sneak away to the media room, but it sucks more because attendees aren’t able to get to your hard work until after. Still, i was stunned that there were 8000+ cookied uids on the wiki. I wish i knew how many people visited the blog, but the counter i was using broke so alas, i have no idea. Stewart tells me that we definitely had an impact on Flickr, which came entirely through the blog, so i’m guessing the blog did pretty well. At the beginning of the weak, no one knew we had a blog and most had no idea what a wiki was. By the end, people were coming up to me asking if i was the blog/wiki girl. People knew it was there and many found it quite helpful and fun. I’m sure that Bruce Sterling’s announcement and /.’s coverage helped tremendously. And it was so great to have other bloggers help out with entries and random strangers send in photos.

Basically, i think that it was a very successful experiment. And i look forward to see if it continues to grow as SIGGRAPH finishes.