I'm enjoying the session on OpenID (which, I just realized, was yet another concept to come from the mind of Brad Fitzpatrick, the "Brad" who caused me to be known as "the other Brad" as an undergraduate).
Highlights from Dries Buytaert's keynote address.
These guys don't seem too organized. Twenty-five minutes in they were still just barely touching on the basics of Image, imagecache, and Imagefield modules. Zero energy, lots of clumsy half-demos of the modules, and no good guidance on top of the demos. Pretty disappointing start. People keep leaving the room.
I'm on the ground in Boston. Tomorrow is the first day of my first DrupalCon. I've come here, in part, because I convinced myself that it would be a good precursor to my thesis research later in the year, as I'm going to need social access to the Drupal community in order to do my research.
In reality, though, I'm hear for two reasons, neither related to my academics.
1. My employer paid for a good chunk of the trip, after I convinced them (correctly) that my week here will more than pay for itself in increased output in the next few months.
I've been reading "The Wisdom of Crowds" today (and blogging about it elsewhere), and came across several instances of the thing I hate the most about economics.
"Plank-road fever was a vivid example of a phenomenon that economists call an 'information cascade.'" (Surowiecki, pg 53) [bold mine]
Why have I fixated on this sentence? I'll answer with two questions:
I know I should be past the point where this surprises me, but I am absolutely appalled by CNN.com.
Here's what they have "above the fold" right now:
Today is a big day for baseball, obviously, with the release of the Mitchell Report, and I've seen a number of different reactions--
I've been meaning to get back into the whole "personal blog" thing, but I've had a pretty brutal semester. But I guess there's no time like the present: 4am on a Thursday morning, after spending 9 hours in the library doing economics.
