I'm here at the IA Summit which officially starts this evening. My first time in Portland - it is raining but was lovely yesterday when I got in. The breakout of the war and all the protesters here, as well as the legion of police in full riot gear - some in our hotel - makes for an interesting backdrop to the conference. So far I've been to Powell's 3 times - and I have barely been here over 24 hours - and had some terrific beer at a small brewpub on 23rd with folks (Christina Wodtke, Peter Merholz, Adam Greenfield, Anne Galloway, Jesse James Garrett, John Zapolski).

I look forward to meeting folks and will be circulating throughout to meet and greet and coerce people to submit articles for Boxes and Arrows.

If you're attending the ASIS&T IA Summit this weekend and haven't picked a
pre-summit seminar, there are seats available for the AIfIA Leadership
Seminar on Friday, March 21. The full-day seminar will address "the most
important and intractable problems faced by the architects of today's
information systems." Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Victor Lombardi,
Rashmi Sunha and Karen McGrane will lead the session.

The cost of the seminar is $US 575. Details are available here:
http://www.aifia.org/calendar/000053.php.

Boxes and Arrows is a year old today! I can't believe it. It's been a great year - I have learned so much from all the fabulous authors I have worked with. I have met (via email and IM) some great, smart people and am looking forward to the next year of cool articles.

When I was asked to be an editor, I never imagined how this little side thing would take over... I mean enhance my life.