A number of people asked me yesterday what I learned at the conference, and I had a hard time answering, not because I didn’t learn anything but because the things I learned were a bunch of small things rather than one large thing. Small things are sometimes harder to articulate. In some cases it wasn’t so much not knowing about a thing but being reminded of a thing I’d forgotten.

What I Learned on Day One:
1. Flickr.com: A reminder that at the bottom of the page you can create an RSS feed for a tag.
2. Upcoming.org: Didn’t know about this cool event website and now I have to remember on Jan 20 to go to the podcasting meet-up at the Beatty St. Bar and Grill.
3. Last.fm: Didn’t know I could listen to all sorts of great music.
4. DLA: Digital Lifestyle Aggregator. Who makes up this stuff?
5. MySpace.com: Patrick Brealey and the Knives are on MySpace.
6. I have invisibility powers and mind control. It’s true, ask Kris.
7. Allconsuming.net: Appears to pull data from Amazon.com, clever idea for something else I’m working on.
8. Odeo.com and Audioblog.com: Knew about it before but got to see it in action.
9. Statcounter.com: Didn’t know about this great free tool.
10. Lee LeFever should write for Lonely Planet. It’s true the world is not flat. And his user network for suggesting countries to visit is a very cool idea.
11. Will Pate. Need I say more? Ok, a bit more, his blog aggregates everything he writes anywhere on the web. I want that.
12. Vonage: Podcasting dealy-o with VoIP.
13. Blogroll with Bloglines: I knew I could do this, but I didn’t quite get why I’d want to use Bloglines to do it. Now, I understand. I can put the Bloglines blogroll on my blog and it will show all the public feeds I read.
14. John thinks Jackie Pittigliani has cool photos on Flickr.com. Some I like.
15. I should MooseCamp an idea I’m working on.
16. ShoZoo. Ronald Shozu. Roland has a Nokia with shozu and he can automatically upload photos to Flickr.

UPDATE: Shozu not ShoZoo. Shazam. Also my humble apologies. It is Roland not Ronald. I did that a couple of times in my head and thought I’d cured myself completely. Not the case. Roland Roland Roland down the dogsledding trail.

17. Yarnharlot.ca. Knit away my friend.
18. It is -26 C, which is 23 degrees different than Vancouver temperature right now, and 23 negative degrees more than I’m comfortable with.