The Gnomedex swag was splendorific and one of the most snazzy was the free "Longhorn loves RSS" jackets from our friends at Microsoft. And wouldn't you know it these jackets were made in Vancouver by Boardroom. Go Boardroom, go! If you need cool snowbard and skater stuff and cool stuff like clothing in general check out Boardroom in Vancouver.

After the close of Gnomedex, we're organizing a giant meet up before the Canadians have to run for the border.

Matt Mullenweg of WordPress was afraid of the Canadian wrath, so we're combining forces to take over the world, starting with the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel today at 6:30pm. Check the Gnomedex Wiki for updates.

I've discovered that, as I suspected, Matt really is evil: he made our announcement on the wiki gigantic and red.

See you there! All welcome! Drupal users and developers partying together at Gnomedex 2005! If you can't make this one, just grab me at any other time, if you get lost, call me at 604 729 7924.

• Funniest presentation of Gnomedex 2005 so far!
• How do bees communicate today?
• Food sources
• Need improvements
• Bee outfitted with radio
• Bee outfitted with antenna
• True goal: is communication
• It's all about talking to women in bee outfits!

Dave Sifry:

• The web is not a library
• Old metaphor
• The web is a realtime global conversation (Roland's note: amen! Dave!)

Gatz of Yahoo

• Geeks/Early adopters are not Yahoo's audience, we can't make money off of geeks so we can't build in OPML syncing and attention.xml
• Roland's response: the geeks/early adopters are a big enough audience for Yahoo to make money IMHO