Last week I gave a paper at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference in Seattle. Wow, it was my 7th presentation at the conference, and each time I inch towards what I am interested in doing and being as a thinker about music. The directions below might be some indication - my paper on laptop use among music writers/scholars involved an interactive laptop performance element, which about 10 people did while I was speaking. With that going, my paper being read, and a number of slides presenting information from a surveymonkey-based online survey I conducted, I was attempting to create some small part of the affective experience of multimedia thinking, while at the same time calling attention to the enfleshed world that was "the wisdom of crowds" in the audience.

And just when I thought I was being original, I dropped down to Portland to hang out with my fantastic bf from high school, Isaac Jones, who recently gave an Ignite slideshow. Check it out – he's heavy in the free software world. Ignite is a really great way to share your inner nerd with other people. Maybe I will put together an Ignite:music for NYCers.