Emily's Musings

And OSN ends

After 2 1/2 pretty crazy weeks, the Online Social Networks 2005 Conference has finally come to an end. We're leaving it open for people to write some closing comments over the next week, but I'm planning to take a few days off from obsessively monitoring it so I can face it anew in March and prepare the cd-rom archive and other housekeeping duties. Over 450 people signed up and participated and produced a tremendous volume of discussions, links, ideas, and comments. It's going to take a while to sort through it all and I think we all learned a lot and were exposed to new tools and applications that we'll be exploring for months to come. It is a lot of fun to work on events like this -- especially knowing that there is an end in sight for the intensity and sheer amount of work it takes to pull it off. I'll admit I'm exhausted from it and need to go back to catching up on everything else (like the paper that's due Friday...)