I'm flying to San Francisco tomorrow with Blowing Smoke groupie Adriana. While in the Bay Area, we'll attend Techdirt Greenhouse - brought to you by the blog I've quoted here more than any other, Techdirt - and I'll see Adriana speak at Vloggercon. She's going to be talking about net neutrality - y'know, how to stop ISPs from blocking services like Skype in order to serve corporate interests.

While my primary reason for flying to Cali tomorrow is the Techdirt event, I'm actually getting more and more excited about Vloggercon. It's awesome that we live in an age where anyone with access to increasingly inexpensive digital equipment and a net connection can effectively direct, write, produce, and star in their own shows. With sites like YouTube blowing up business models all over the place, it's a pretty exhilarating time to be into this stuff.

Oh, and while we're in San Francisco, author and blogger Shel Israel is throwing a party for me and Adriana at the Hotel Utah (no polygamous relations will be going on, though...as far as I know). If you're in the Bay Area and want to come along, shoot Shel an email or send one to me at dynamist AT gmail dot com.