Gregor J Rothfuss: "For me, the nature of the antiques market suddenly changed. No longer was it a local fair on the streets of Sao Paulo, where Paulistas could haggle over a painting, table or kitchen set. Now it was just another cog in the global antiques marketplace, facilitated by eBay and the Web."

11:15:58 PM    

It's my second day living in CA. So, what should I do on Saturday night, unpack my apartment? Nah, I'm going to Scoble's blogger gathering!  It was quite a trip.  Watching Marc Canter and Dave Winer have a heated debate over pizza was really something.  These are two guys who can go all the way up and down the stack from code to UI to managing the business. It was excellent to meet them and get to throw my two cents into the conversation.

I talked with Robert Scoble and apologized for getting him Slashdotted.  He's in a tough position having to defend explain Microsoft's position to its most vocal critics and internally explain why blogging publicly, despite the risks, is valuable to the company.  He told me not to worry about it.

I got a chance to play a monster card game with Scoble's son Patrick.  I can't remember the name of the game but it seemed to be of the same genera as Pokémon.  Patrick crushed me.

We all sat around and talked over pizza, beer, and ice cream.   I got a chance to tell Scoble, Marc, Dave, Phil Wolff, and Niall Kennedy about my desire to forge a connection between weblogging and eBay and to increase the visibility of the eBay community.  I showed them pictures of the 10,000 people who attended eBay live in Orlando.

I think this is a great example of the multiple blogospheres that make up the internet.  Weblogers and eBaysians are both high velocity communicators, but webloggers (at least for now) are dominated by tech types, while eBay users are more likely to be AOL-and-email-on-a-dial-up people.  I think there's an opportunity for introducing these two cultures to each other.

It was a great time.  Thanks Scoble for picking up the pizza tab and organizing the event.

Other accounts of the evening from: Marc, Don, & Dave.

12:43:22 AM