dotBen: he's missed the idea of creating a position emotion when you're trying to sell a product. We're all feeling miffed listening to REM

seanbonner: Do we have any RIAA people here? Can someone sue him for this?

TomCoates: doot doot doot doot

TomCoates: doot doot doot doot

h8ianxpress: is that Freedom rock? well, turn it up!

TantekC: i'm not shiny nor happy right now.

***TomCoates waves his cigarette lighter

danhon: would it distract him if we started singing along?

mathowie: REM is trying to play him off, Oscars style

bigtank: making people happy is easy. making them shiny AND happy is a pain in the ass

Every good conference (or every terribly boring one) has its IRC channel, a chat room where attendees can trade notes or, more often, snark about the speaker. ETech 2006 attendees and non-attendees can access #etech on irc.freenode.net, but the conference is just winding down.

Sean Bonner shows what you missed — he's posted an unedited transcript of the IRC logs during Monday's keynotes.

Stamen Design shows it even better, with a spiderwebby chat visualization and a map of the chatters.

ETech IRC Logs - March 6 Keynotes [Sean Bonner]
backchannel [Stamen Design]