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What an absolutely fantastic event Gnomedex 8 turned out to be! Held in Seattle USA; this once-a-year event has reached and completed its 8th-time round. Run by Chris Pirillo and his wife Ponzi in association with their sponsors, which this year included HP as the main sponsor, this year’s show was simply awe-inspiring to me as I watched, despite the fact that I was online, across the pond in UK, and in an 8-hours ahead time-zone.

There isn’t much more to say other than the above now it’s over. At the end of the last night, Chris and Ponzi mentioned a chance of there being several one-day events of a similar nature in various locations around the USA; I suppose that would be next year if it happens, in addition to the main venue in Seattle: That would be utterly fantastic; especially if they were all streamed online too.

Having bade farewell to Gnomedex 2008 from my office chair in front of my monitor; (Yes I am still using a 17″ CRT monitor - I wrote a script to make the streamed picture cover the entire screen in 1024 x 768 resolution so that I didn’t have to watch through a magnifying glass.) I leave you with the closing views of the event as seen on the stream:

See this video to check out some stills of the highlights:

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I caught David Risley online via the feed at the Gnomedex pre-conference bash and tried to get an interview of sorts. The chat was so hectic that this was quite obviously impossible and I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I did manage to get about 3 lines through though, as you’ll see toward the end of this video clip recorded from the online stream: Technology is a fantastic thing; and all the world’s population now has the opportunity (Most have the ability.) to communicate over large distances via the internet to unite the entire globe.

After Dave Risley followed Sarah Lacy, who seemed to do her own show jointly along with virtually everyone else present: Sarah turned out to be an excellent chat-show co-host, and the presentation was most enjoyable and entertaining. The chatroom crowd interacted with the presenters and guests, resulting in a quite spectacular interactive production which, other than for the quality of the Ustream feed, was worthy of a television performance.

Towards the end of the long evening, as the alcohol flowed freely, one of the guests became aggressive and attempted to disrupt the show with a verbal attack on Sarah, her other current guests, and her co-presenter(s). This was handled extremely professionally, courteously, and graciously, by Sarah herself and a couple of the guests; one in particular whose name I forget (’May have been Eric Rice?) as it was about 4AM BST and I had my eyelids propped open with matchsticks.

Another small downer was the absence from the show of Tara Hunt, aka @missrogue, who was requested to guest by a large number of the chatroom, including myself; and who I feel could have made a valuable extra contribution had anyone been able to locate her. Quite obviously Tara has an extremely busy schedule: This most articulate lady leads a jet-set life filled with great achievements, and parties hard in any spare time she gets: Quite a live-wire!

Everything suddenly scaled down in a matter of minutes, and the party was completely over and empty by 6AM BST. The main host, Chris Pirillo, did make a short appearance on the feed towards the end of the night; after his parents had been on and had been interviewed by the chatroom crowd about his young days and his personal life.

During this time I was writing the first draft of my last blog entry in addition to watching the feed. I hope my multitasking didn’t make me miss too much of the proceedings. All in all it was a thoroughly dynamic event. Apologies for having missed out anybody: There were three birthday people that night; one of whom was Kathy, the others…I think I remember it was Sarah Lacy’s too: Belated Happy Birthday wishes to all anyway.

The rest of Gnomedex is currently running for real. You can pick up the live Ustream feed at http://chris.pirillo.com/live/

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