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Ok, I ranted about no one blogging the Mac OS X Conference hosted by O’Reilly, and I was a bit premature in my judgement. There are quite a few people blogging it:

Glenn talks about Wireless, DRM linkers, Old Machines being reused, or not, Jordan Hubbard, and DRM.

Boing Boing talks Rendezvous and Linux which Steve took notes of.

Gillmor talks DRM and Apple and Cory comments. Gilmor also talks about porting Unix to Mac OS X and Jordan Hubbard.

Cory blogs DRM, with a link to Gilmor, who links to J.D. and back to our already read piece by Glenn.

Rob Flickenger talks about odd packets and the lack of them getting where there should be, or back from where they went, thanks in part to Etherpeg and Mac OS X.

Jeremy Zawodny summarizes the opening Keynote by Tim O’Reilly, give us his summary of a Monday Panel on the future of the Mac, tells us why he left the conference early on Monday, blogs Jordan Hubbard, gives us an excellent summary of a panel discussion, talks about his disappointment with a Java talk, tells us what he learned from the Bare Bones guys, and comments on my comment that there aren’t many people blogging the conference.

Trained Monkey comments on how the Mac is a much longer live platform than other platforms (in the desktop environment at least).

Tyler comments that school prevented his attendance.

Lanette talks about how hard it was to attend everything and blog it at the same time, but only after she blogged AppleScript, some thoughts on Tim O’Reilly’s keynote and Jordan Hubbard’s Keynote.

Dori blogged the Unix/Mac phenom, and the difficulties of giving a presentation when a main player in the market of the subject releases new products that day

Ben blogs Rendezvous, and tells us that he wants to write a Rendezvous app… get on with it Ben, and lets see what you’ve got.

Useable Help blogs Apple Help and the OS X Con.

Kevin Burton blogs Rendezvous Notes at the protocal level and Rendezvous from the programer perspective.

MacNetJournal blogs some of the links I have above.

Oddly enough, MacCentral, MacNN, and MacMinute’s coverage of the conference was pretty thin. You’d think those ‘mac’ sites would have covered it more closely, considering the possibilities that putting that many bleeding edge developers together could have meant for news sources… sort of sad, IMO.

Moveable Type does a great job of offering a single source for up to date TrackBacks, but I think this demonstration shows only that not all bloggers are using Trackback, not that people aren’t at the conference, or that they aren’t blogging it.

I’m sure that I missed some of the blogging of the conference, but I didn’t start keeping track until today (when I realized people were actually blogging it). I think Jeremy did the best job of getting news into the hands of people, and that O’Reilly as an entity could have done a better job, but at the same time, realize they were probably busy as shit.

Hope to be there next year