Last day of the conference and I woke up tired. That’s not necessarily a bad sign as it was not unexpected. Plumes for coffee, by myself this morning as others decided to sleep in. (This also was not unexpected.) Morning keynote then off to the wikis souble-session. Lunch somewhere; I honestly don’t remember where. (Oh yeah, it was the free lunch that I rushed through before doing my book signing at the Information Today booth. Duh!) Then back to the conference center for “social softwr” and blogging tools.
Liz Lawley’s closing keynote was on gaming and I did ask her a question about her thoughts on what we’re doing at the Second Life Library 2.0. I didn’t blog it at the time as I didn’t want to be typing as she was answering my question. What she said was somewhat unexpected yet thought provoking. Basically, she doesn’t feel that SL is a game at all (I agree) as there’s no “point” or “goals” for the “players”. The more interesting point she made was that she feels that SL is “the AOL of virtual worlds”. In other words, it’s where companies and people will get used to things before moving on to the next stage, as may did with AOL before moving on to the Internet. Thanks Liz! I enjoyed your response very much and I’ll be thinking about what you said for a while.
I then went back to my room for two hours to relax and watch the first two eipsodes of Torchwood(!). At 6:30 eleven of us met in the Marriott lobby and headed off for some great Sushi at Ko-To. (If you want spectacular sushi at reasonable prices without all the “fru fru” atsmophere, Ko-To is the place to go in Monterey!) $265 dollars later (plus tip) we were all stuffed and looking to head back to the Crown & Anchor. There more merryment was had, “goodbyes” and “see you in March”es were shared and I finally succumbed to the exhaustion, leaving about 10:15.
This morning I’m waiting to meet up with an OCLC researcher to talk about social software for an hour or so before heading back to San Francisco for a 2:30pm flight. I’m assuming that I’ll blog about the meeting when I get a chance and will definitely post some final conference thoughts in the next 48 hours.
