It's high time for the third edition of what I felt were the top moments at Netroots Nation.
This is not a diary about the serious, activist things going on last weekend at the LEED-certified David L. Lawrence Convention Center in the great city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I'm pretty much going to avoid the whole panel thing, as other people will have diaried those.
This is about the behind-the-scenes goings-on that were really worth seeing. In other words, a "chocolate fountain" of a diary.
This is the first convention I attended where I had a camera, and boy, did I make good use of it. Of course (and this is far more important), it was also the first convention at which I could drink legally.
Ironically, this may have resulted in MORE footage I'm going to have to pass on letting people view. I'm speaking in particular of the beer I spilled over my head while trying to go back to filming the hilarious Katie Halper (I'd turned the camera to cville townie to get him to admit, on camera, to swiping OPOL's hat)
But enough about what I can't show you. Here's what I can.
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