The trouble with not having to pay a conference fee’s that you don’t feel compelled to be at the whole thing — to get your money’s worth out of it, or whatever. Actually, it may be that even if I did pay, I’d miss stuff –

So I missed the BlogHer conference breakfast this morning because that started at a ridic time: 8:30 am — then I missed the welcome, and a get-to-know-each-other type session.

But I slept pretty well and took the 66 bus to Navy Pier, and caught a glimpse of Cool Globes before walking all the way down to the end of the pier to check in around 11 –

Unfortunately the first panels started at 10:45, and I couldn’t sneak in late because the one I wanted to go to was totally full and already had people standing at the doors peeking in –

So I went to the Yahoo! Internet Cafe (left) and checked email and explained to a new friend, Valencia, what an RSS feed is.

Then we had lunch in this huge room. Around 800 people’re at the conference!

And afterwards I took a lil nap at the Cafe — I was tired –

Finally it’s 2:45 and I’m finally attending a panel — Yay! Elise Bauer and Vanessa Fox‘re talking about blog traffic.

It’s a full house. To the right, the crowd to my right, to the left, the crowd to my left.

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