[12:05am] Somewhere deep inside me is lurking a post about Don Box’s Indigo talk…part of it was spawned this afternoon, but I don’t have the gumption to write about that right now.

I thought about writing a detailed followup to tonight’s Blogger BOF, but then I realized that just about everyone else in the blogosphere would be doing the same thing. And since I can’t seem to get online at the hotel right now, by the time you actually read this everyone else will have already covered all the interesting bits. So I’m going to hold off on extensive commentary for now. The only thing that I will say is that the content of the session was less than I had hoped for (or maybe it was too much, since I didn’t expect much content at all). No disrespect to Robert McLaws (thanks for putting that together), but I personally didn’t get too much out of the session itself. I had hoped it would be more of a “Hi, I blog, you blog, let’s hang out” session, but it devolved into a discussion on transparent blog categorization and aggregation – both of which are really hard problems and neither of which I think will be solved elegantly until we come to a more fundamental understanding of how to do better semantic processing of natural language content.

I did enjoy meeting a few people, though. I finally got to meet Drew Robbins, the man behind PDC Bloggers. He’s a really nice guy who’s devoted a lot of his personal time and energy to building the distributed community in which we all participate. I also enjoyed meeting Jamie Cansdale, the guy who wrote the utterly fantastic NUnit Add-In for Visual Studio. That guy has saved me a huge amount of time with his great add-in, and he’s a really interesting guy to talk to as well. He was kind enough to show me a little demo of the next version of the NUnit add-in – which brings back my favorite part of the NUnit GUI: The Green Bar of Goodness. Other notables were DonXML, Rory, Don Browning, Benjamin Mitchell and of course BTJ. Overall, it was really fun to meet these people in person and finally associate faces with RSS feeds. I’m looking to do more of that at the party on Wednesday night.

Speaking of great Microsoft community members, I got to chat a little bit with Brad Abrams on the way back to hotel. He’s another MS blogger whom I actively read and respect. Ironically, we didn’t talk too much tech – more commenting on how funny it was that our hotel was hosting two big events at the same time – one being the PDC, the other being the Mercedes Benz fashion show. In the hotel bar, it’s pretty easy to tell who’s here for which event J

Thus far, this conference is exactly what I was hoping for – lots of great new information, good times, and good people. Looking forward to more of the same tomorrow!