The video is just talking heads, so you can open this one in the background and listen while you update your MySpace work.

Behind The Scenes At Technorati [Ryan Is Hungry]

MashPit III: Tuesday 10-5
Made by: "Pinko Marketing" evangelist Tara Hunt; designer Chris Messina; Technorati coder Tantek Celik
Gist: Coders make mashups of their favorite Internet tools
Attendance: About 22 people as of 11 AM, room for more
People to meet: Tantek Celik, Chief Technologist for blog-tracking startup Technorati and king of Microformats (meet him again at Supernova)
People to avoid: Kevin Burton, because he's not allowed to talk until he sells his startup.
Fringe benefit: Free Starbucks and pastries, unless you'd rather watch the live video feed.

Supernova 2006: Wednesday to Friday
Gist: Speakers like Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Technorati founder Dave Sifry, and Yahoo Senior VP Usama Fayyad speak about the business of technology. But you're here for the networking.
Attendance: Several hundred geeks and wonks hailing from Wired Magazine, Microsoft, Plaxo, and other places you want to get hired
People to meet: Kyle Brinkman, co-founder of MySpace, to ask if he's grown up and joined Facebook yet
People to avoid: The Ponytail (and Jon Schwartz, the interim Sun CEO attached to it)
Fringe benefit: Have fun drawing six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon maps connecting all the panelists — "So he's from Technorati, and she's on Technorati's board, but she also used to work for Sun, where this other guy works after leaving Microsoft...and these two are totally sleeping together."

Bloggercon IV: Thursday night to Saturday evening
Gist: Bloggers like RSS innovator Dave Winer and Gnomedex conference founder Chris Pirillo discuss blogging, how to make money from it, and how to win elections with it — things that bloggers currently suck at
Attendance: Capped at 125, with a long waiting list
People to meet: MAKE Magazine blogger Phil Torrone, man of many tech toys (jammers! robots! LEDs!)
People to avoid: Winer — which might be hard, since it's his conference
Fringe benefit: Winer declared the whole conference "on the record." Exploit this every time you overhear a whisper.

BarCamp: Friday to Sunday
Gist: Much bigger, funner version of MashPit — one of many BarCamp coding and collaboration events held around the world. Hosted by Microsoft, who really wants to prove how indie they are
Attendance: Room for 250, with 204 signed up so far
People to meet: Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera, if only to ask whether he and roommate Michael Arrington really have a "Tech-cave" and "Tech-mobile" in the basement
People to avoid: Anyone with a podcast microphone
Fringe benefit: Brag about getting invited to O'Reilly Media's Foo Camp, so "I just thought I'd drop by to see the little people."

This past weekend, Chris and I (as well as a huge number of other people) were behind a very successful WineCamp, yet, when reported by the media, Chris was the only one mentioned as being behind it.

Funny, Tara, that sounds familiar. Kinda like Fost's note before heading to Winecamp:

The event is part of Chris Messina's Bar Camp un-conferences.

Oh really, Dan? So Barcamp's founding fathers —

Andy Smith (back left), Ryan King (back right), Tantek Celik (front left), Matt Mullenweg (front right), and the Eris Stassi (founding mother, not pictured) — Chris (center, squinting) didn't mention them when you fact-checked with him?

You...you did fact-check about Barcamp, right? I hear fact-checking separates real journalists from unreliable blogs like Valleywag.

Sometimes, being a PiC really sucks [Tara Hunt]
TECH CHRONICLES [Dan Fost at SF Chronicle]
Photo: BarCampPlanners, where are you now? [Ryan King on Flickr via the ryan king]

This weekend, PBWiki founder and coder Dave Weekly hosted the ninth in his grand series of SuperHappyDevHouses (where guests have included the inventor of the mouse, and where each iteration is unpredictable, like a fractal and unlike a King of Queens episode).

SHDH is an irregularly scheduled weekend coding session in the Peninsula town of Hillsborough. It lasts all Saturday night, with some coders staying up til dawn. I was lucky enough to get stuck there overnight and witness the whole shebang, which everyone called the "most productive" devhouse, especially for its size.

These three hung out on the stairway for a few hours, like a very hot, female, Asian Cerberus. Actually, not like Cerberus at all.

Yes, Scott Beale and Neil Kumar heard your little "Two black guys and a white programmer walk into a bar" joke. No, the punchline was not appropriate at all.

Lest you think geeks don't have sex — that night netted not one but two condoms in the trashcan of the cramped downstairs (I think. Maybe the roomier upstairs) bathroom. Granted, only one is confirmed to have been used on a girl, but still, way to go, developers!

After the jump, things more boring than bathroom sex. But they are still good things.

Photos: SHDH 9 [Elea Chang on Flickr]
SuperHappyDevHouse [Official wiki]

Dave Weekly. Organizer. Man of mystery. Commie.

"I appreciate you trying to help, it's really cute. But let's face it, boys can't code."

Val Henson (above) whipped up a nifty app that combs SEC data for unlikely financial data. The tool compares a company's reported financial numbers to the actual distribution of normal financial data. Given enough data, the figures that skew wrong (Shell, which recently posted surprisingly low revenue after some government trouble, was the worst offender) were probably fudged.

Sunday morning, the overnighters (about a dozen guys) analyzed the night over brunch. "There weren't as many girls this time," said Technorati coder Tantek Celik. "There were more," someone replied. "You just didn't notice because they were actually coding."