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Hey guys,

it’s been two long days for me in terms of preparing to the event tomorrow.
WordCamp 2007 (Wordpress convention)was setup in the most friendly but professional way i've ever seen, down to the communications i had with the other "staff" working on this project with me. The collectibe thinking we made on a Google group we opened and just on the last days I've moved to my cell communicator.

After I left Tapuz People I called Tal Galili (event manager) and told him I have time to give on this project. Since I was of the last people who joined to lift this project up (even though I was on the "founders" meeting on Blink and took video footage of it) not many things had been left free to do, so I took organizing the name tags on me and to be THE event photographer. So at the event and after, please be ready to get live photos from my Flickr which I'll also use in this blog when live blogging the event. All photos will be public under CC lisence (which means you can use them and link back to this blog).

The name tags are simple in design, the big W sign on top and the name below, either in Hebrew or in English inside a plastic thingy.

I started with telling you about the communications… I dont know if it’s the nerds I talked to or if it’s the web and IM style talking that got me there…. but speaking on the phone with some of the group I worked with was just in "give me the buttom line", and "what do you think we should do?", and "give me status report" (in the old Star Trek way of saying that)("status report, number one"). I noticed it because I'm not accustomed to it, but I am a sociologist after all, i couldn't help not noticing it, it made me think.

I actually thought of making myself a Tshirt for tomorrow. I decided not to, yet. There are event shirt we're gonna pass. It’s gonna be a lot of fun.

i'm going to sleep

For me, iDrink07 really started at around 21:00 and not in 19:00 as it should have.
19:00 was cool, there were a lot of people already but it wasn't too crowded. By 19:45 you couldn't move, or have more than 2 inches of space, or not be wet. It was too crowded. I can't say anything bad, except iDrink07 was a success; a too-successful-event done in a wrong place, in a small place.

I had to go out for some air with friends and to take a walk instead of mingling and soacializing. I got in at around 21:00, when the startup presentations were over, and when people started going outside to mingle and to get air. this is when when I got in back inside. In a matter of minutes i succeeded to meet new people, exchange cards and schedule talks to the days to come. I take these events seriously, so when i come to a social event I expect the space to fit. When I wrote in Ning i was coming, i started getting all those emails from other men and women who registered themselves… i realized it was going to be crowded, I think the organizers new it too.

so, a crowd is good. Very crowded place isn't good. And as iDrink just became an institution for the internet industry (in a sense that "you gotta be there") the organizers must deliver better environments next times.

photos from iDrink07

<p align="right">‎אני לא חושב שמעולם רשמתי את שמו של החלאה על דפי הבלוגים שלי ואני לא מתכוון ללכלך אותם גם כעת באיזכור שמו.

שמו ‎יקרא חלאה, ורק כך.

<p align="right">‎אני חושב שעוד לא קמה הצעקה, או הצורה הנכונה של התקשורת מצד הבלוגרים והאתרים המפעילים בלוגים (ובכלל אתרים באינטרנט) כדי להילחם לצד כוחות החופש, הדמוקרטיה והליברליות בתופעה אותה מייצג החלאה ומי מבאי אמונו. לכן, אני מזמין את כל מי שמעוניין- להשתמש בטקסט הזה אצלו בבלוג.
אני רוצה לה‎ביע כאן מעל הבלוג(ים) שלי כולם את קולי, את כוחי כאדם בדמוקרטיה ואת כוחי הוירטואלי בתור בלוגר נקרא ולשוב להיות חלק מאותה עצרת בעד השלום ונגד אלימות מתאריך ארבעה בנובמבר 1995, ולזעוק, למחות ולהפגין בקול גדול:

<p align="right">‎לא אשכח!
לא אסלח!
לא אוותר לעולם!

<p align="right">אסור לתת לו לקבל חופשה.‎

<p align="right">‎אסור לשחרר אותו מהכלא לעולם.

cool video, having problems embeding it

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g 

I went out with Gilad last night and we decided to film it. Little did i know it will almost cost me my life.
We went out to the Rosa Parks which sucked, than to the Becky which sucked and than to the Toma which was expansive.

The movie was shot at Ibn Gvirol… you'll see how it goes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjzmHBi4W8