RB (the red baron) and i just got back from an exhausting and fantastic trip to vegas for blogworld. although i went to sleep pretty early, RB was out all night overdoing it on the gambling, sex, and drugs...somehow i was able to get him up early enough to make it to the conference at 7:45am. it was a little early, but we got our wits together, and tim and i had a great talk with the folks there. there were a ton of fascinating questions, and i personally got a lot out of it. afterward i got a good chance to speak to some of you in person, take some pictures, and sign some autographs.
speaking of which: if you, the reader, are someone i met at the conference, and you have photos or video of us, feel free to leave a comment under this post, with the photo, video, or a link so all the mikeshinoda.com community can check them out!
a huge "thank you" goes out to tim ferriss (for babysitting us, ha!), rick calvert, rohit bhargava, mohammed saleem, and all the interesting folks i met and chatted with today. thanks to the many people who came up and said so many nice things about my music and art, and thanks to everyone who shared with us their insight into the future of our online world.
the link to the keynote talk, in full, is hopefully coming soon. i'll put it up asap. here are some links to some coverage in other good blogs:
http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2008/09/lessons-on-buil.html
http://www.flyteblog.com/flyte/2008/09/blogworld-sunda.html
http://www.miss604.com/2008/09/blog-world-expo-2008-keynote-and-sunday-sessions.html
by the way, i was just kidding about RB and the gambling, sex, and drugs. he's not into that stuff--he keeps it clean.
except for his obsession with narcoleptic sheep:
EDIT: fan correction: narcoleptic goats, not sheep. (wow, people around these parts are pretty quick to correct you when it comes to mistakes regarding animal species. next thing you know, they'll be telling me a dolphin isn't a fish...)