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Day one of the Gnomedex<\/a> conference has come to a close.\u00a0 As I write this, it is 6:20pm, I am offline and have just ordered a Maritime IPA and a cup of clam chowder to enjoy here on the patio of the Fishermans Restaurant and Bar on Seattle’s waterfront.\u00a0 There’s not a cloud in the sky and the sun has just begun to consider falling toward the horizon.\u00a0 This restaurant is an ideal choice as it sits one peer south of the Seattle aquarium where tonight’s Gnomedex reception will begin in less than an hour.\u00a0 The reception should be cool, and I understand that they feed the critters at 8:30, so I’ll plan to be on hand for that spectacle.<\/p>\n The conference today was interesting.\u00a0 It had a bit of controversy, but mostly it focused on conversation about where technology is leading us instead of, perhaps, where we should be leading it.\u00a0 As mentioned in an earlier post, I’m not drawn to this conference for political reasons, and thus, was not overly enthused by the first keynote (Robert Steele<\/a>).\u00a0 The speaker was great and his presentation very well delivered; I’m just not the audience for it.\u00a0\u00a0 I loved the focus in a later session, on how technology is missing the boat when it comes to aging members of our society ( but I spoke enough about that in a previous post).\u00a0\u00a0 Another topic I found interesting was lead by Jason Calacanis<\/a> and focused on how littered the Internet has become.\u00a0 Spam, ads, junk comments, etc are facets of the web now, annoyances that we all must endure.\u00a0\u00a0 The Internet has become the Litternet<\/em>.\u00a0 Mahalo<\/a>, a search engine that is actually scrubbed by humans to get around the garbage that bubbles to the top of the usual search engine, was discussed as one approach to the problem.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we didn’t get too far down the path of other approaches to the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n