Gnomedex report

Related link: http://www.gnomedex.com/

I'm off to Gnomedex this morning to catch the opening keynote by Dave Winer and check out some of the other sure-to-be-interesting presentations.

Other O'Reilly folks heading up to Seattle for the event include gadgeteer Phillip Torrone of MAKE magazine, and Eric Freeman, who is my partner in crime on the Head First series. We'll be blogging along with another 200 or so bloggers who will be there.

Gnomedex is presented by Chris Pirillo of lockergnome and The Chris Pirillo Show. Chris recently moved to Seattle (and posts occasionally on Metroblogging Seattle as well). He managed to drum up quite a bit of publicity from the local papers, which was great - I learned more about Chris than Gnomedex, but he's an interesting (and apparently very energetic) guy! Check out the articles at the Seattle Times and the Seattle PI. I had no idea you could rent out his chest; now *that's* a novel idea (and not even that geeky either).

But Gnomedex promises to have plenty of geek appeal. As John Dvorak (PC Magazine) says, "Gnomedex "is very nerdy. The speakers are up there and only about 10 percent of the people will be watching. The rest will be blogging it. It looks like one of the reporters' nooks at a baseball game."

There's no shortage of reportage from Gnomedex already, and it's barely started. Check out the del.icio.us gnomedex tag, the flickr gnomedex tag and the Gnomedex Wiki to get in on the action. I'll be reporting more from this completely wired event throughout the morning.

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