what really goes on at the technology conference

Seeing as this is the tech conference, absolutely EVERYONE in here is busy on their laptops and PDAs. I see a couple people playing Scrabulous (you know who you are), lots of people on Facebook, several Twitter micro-bloggers (found several people to follow while I was here), lots of people checking email, whether on phones or on laptops... And of course, I am equally guilty of being on my own Blackberry, writing this mobile blog post.

We've also been texting each other to tell each other what sessions we're in, where to meet etc.

So given that this is the way of the world now, and predictably so, I am surprised the organizers of the conference did not try to work this into the format more (given that it's the TECHNOLOGY conference - doh). We could have had a text blog during the conference, for example, for any attendees to text comments on a rolling basis throughout the conference. We could have had more official textmob groups. We could have had "bring your laptop and try some stuff out right now" sessions!

Just a thought.