Ok. After a lot of weekend-y things (home, baby, yard, wife, more driving around, baby), I’m finally going to weigh in on the conference. Since I’m really short on time, this won’t be a big grandiose analysis [since when have you been good at that, anyways? —ed., but just a few notes.

• It was really cool to finally meet Trixie’s dad. He was, as I expected, nice and very personable. I told him that my wife and I look at his web page as a glimpse into the future, as Trixie is roughly seven months older than Isabella. He is also the first person ever to be honest about the future: “It gets harder.”
• During the conversation about site traffic, Dave Winer asked why anyone should care about the amount of people who visit?
• “Blog like no one is reading” saieth Dave Hoggard, the Bathrobed one. This is good advice for me since no one is reading. Ha!
• Old media is not dead; it’s just morphing to cope with the new media, of which bloggers are part of the forefront.
• The only testy exchange at the conference was hilarious:

  GUY 1: I don’t have a weblog, since I mainly leave comments on other people’s weblogs. I think that weblogs without comments are not real weblogs.
  
  GUY 2: I believe that, since you don’t have a weblog, you’re not a real person!

• Blogs are a great way to do grassroots politics at the local level, c.f. Ruby Sinreich’s OrangePolitics.org.
• Finally, I had no idea that my inspiration to start weblogging was directly inspired to start his weblog based on the efforts of one of the very first webloggers.

For later reference, I filed a couple of links mentioned at the conference on del.icio.us under the tag triblogcon2005. Feel free to add yours. Also: don’t forget to drop off your pictures at the Flickr photo pool.

Thanks to Anton Zuiker and Paul Jones for dreaming this whole thing up. Let’s do it again next year.