now with added pictures!

if it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that talk is cheap, then it's probably time for some illustrations of the conference. let's start with the venue itself: none of the conference rooms have any natural light coming into them, which makes you appreciate having a hotel room that allows you to look out over such a magnificent vista:


today, after andy ramsden's twitter session (which was interesting, of which more later) i accidentally ended up in a technology/systems/standards session. i didn't understand a word of it, but lots of people seemed to be taking pictures of this slide, so i thought i'd share it with you instead of trying to summarise the session:



are we all clear about that?

the presenter also helpfully shared a couple of pictures/diagrams with us to clarify some of the concepts he was talking about - for those of you struggling to keep up, let's see if these help:




(the word obscured by the person's head is "environment", btw)

right, i'll leave you to digest that for a while - time for a spot of dinner and then some more sessions - hopefully not about metadata.