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I finally have Internet access at the NewComm Forum. I’ve spent most of the day watching everyone around me check e-mail, write blog posts and just generally enjoy the wonder that is wi-fi, while mine just wouldn’t work. Some sort of goofiness with the hotel’s authentication, coupled with my utter laziness in trying to fix it. That, and the sessions were good enough to keep me tuned in. Because I’m a geek.

I couldn’t spend the day blogging about the conference during the conference, as I had intended, so I’m going to try to put some extra thought into the later-than-expected posts I throw up later. In the meantime, though, I must say (again, keep my indisputable geekdom in mind here) I’m quite pumped to have met Shel Holtz today.

We and others around us had a good chat over lunch about everything from the fate of newspapers (not as dire as many think) to the future of widgets and RSS (you’d better come to the next NewComm Forum). Bummed, though, that his colleague Neville Hobson couldn’t be here. These guys co-host the For Immediate Release podcast, which I enjoy greatly. They’re bright and insightful and apparently dedicated to improving the community of communicators — a rather respectable set of traits.

I met some other very cool, very bright people today, too. Tom Foremski and I had a great walkin’-the-halls chat about the way newswires are changing (are the doomed…?!). And while I didn’t actually meet Todd Defren, I nodded eagerly a lot when he said things during the session on social media news releases. Todd’s a bright guy with some great ideas.

More to come later on all of this stuff. No time now. Battery’s dying.

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