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Day 2 of Gnomedex is about to start up here in a couple of minutes so I figured that I\’d take the time to throw down some of the notes about what went on during Day 1.

Chris Pirillo:
I posted a bit yesterday about how the day started over here.

Mike Arrington (of TechCruch):
The day started out with Mike Arrington of TechCrunch talking about Web 2.0 companies. He mentioned that digg.com is getting over 9 million hits a day (did I make that up? someone fact-check me!) which is starting to creep into NY Times territory. What does that mean? It means that blogs and this \”new media\” (ugh, sorry.) is starting to creep up behind these traditional media outlets. Same goes for places like YouTube, MySpace, etc.

Dave Dederer (founding member of the Presidents of the United States of America ~ the band):
Dave talked about music and technology and gave a lot of interesting insight into the life/world of a musician. He really broke down the percentages of where the money goes when you\’re in a record contract. Long story short, most musicians seem to be making their money on merchandise where they have the biggest profit-margin.

John Edwards (yes, that John Edwards):
Senator John Edwards gave a talk that was targeted towards technology and politics. It was very interesting to listen to him and for the most part, the audience was very well behaved. I genuinely believe that he was looking for some information to help him with what he might be busy working on/doing leading up to 2008. Someone mentioned having a blogger or two on the campaign bus the whole time. That would be cool.

Lunch:
I have to say that the food is very good at the conference center. It was last year and continues to be very decent for serving such a large amount of people.

Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon.com):
Werner spoke about Network Neutrality and the importance of why people should be paying attention and be concerned as to what their phone companies and cable providers are trying to do.

Steve Rubel (Micro Persuasian):
Steve spoke about marketing and using web technologies such as blogs to reach a customer audience. The topic of people blogging because of their passion for a product was brought up. Companies should embrace people like this and pay attention to those who have had negative experiences.

Marc Canter (PeopleAggregator, Marc’s Voice, etc.):
Marc had a great presentation (in typical Marc-style) where he discussed open-ness in software. “It’s not about being big or small, it’s about being open or closed.” How can you create your own clique?

Susan Mernit:
Talked about getting “personal” in your blog. I’m talking really personal…

The Bloglines Folks:
Led a session based around what people would love to see in their “dream feedreader”.

Steve Gillmor:
Talked about Attention and the Attention Operating System. If you don’t get it yet, ask Matt. He had a good explanation last night at the party. Actually, I think I have it recorded so maybe we will throw it out in part of the podcast.

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