After a week on the road, culminating with Gnomedex 07, I’m back in the office. Molly and I spent a week in the northwest where we were able to visit her family. We then took a train up to Seattle for a weekend of conference fun. The trip home was a convoluted collection of planes, trains and automobiles spanning three states and taking over twelve hours.

Once in Seattle we met up with Stan, went to the mixer and Gnomedex was on. After spending the past few months hanging out in Chris Pirillo’s live chatroom, it was a pleasure to finally meet him and his wife Ponzi in person. They put on a wonderful weekend where the field is very level and you are equally likely to get into a conversation with a new blogger or a seasoned blogger like Robert Scoble. The presenters provided a wide variety of topics covering everything from open money to elder blogging.

It was really cool to meet some of out users who are doing cool things with Lijit. Deepak Singh has found some really cool academic uses that he writes about here. Of course, there were people that knew our fabulous evangelist Tara, like Tajee, a Japanese video blogger. Perhaps I can use her videos to learn a little Japanese. It was wonderful to be surrounded by people that understood what we do, where the odd Web 2.0 lexicon that we’ve developed was okay to use. I think Chris Brogan really understood and did a nice write up that has turned a few heads our direction. I’m very excited to see where things go.

I definitely look forward to going to Gnomedex 08, seeing old faces, and meeting new people. Stepping outside of Boulder and our developing tech scene and into a room full of people from the Valley was very energizing, but now I’ve got a lot of coding to do.