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Here it is Friday morning in Vienna and I haven't blogged since right before we left for Vienna on Tuesday afternoon. This is the longest gap in my blogitude so far.

The conference is about to begin and I'm the the first speaker, so this will be brief:

My wife (Ann) and I spent Wednesday getting here and napping. We ran into the peripatetic Dan Gillmor in the airport and went to a traditional Viennese restaurant with him Wednesday night. Thursday, Ann and I walked around after having coffee with the conference organizer, Thomas Burg, in a converted royal greenhouse. What a beautiful city! And so clean! It makes Toronto look like a college dorm room, it's so tidy. Thursday night was a BlogTalk dinner in a vineyard in the Vienna Woods, looking down on the city. Too much fun, too many good conversations.

Now Blogtalk is set to begin, the first European blogging conference. It's got a great line-up of speakers, and has drawn about 160 people, mainly not from Vienna, a testament to Thomas' skills and the interest in blogging.