Jowl (Webmaster Cookbook) and I went to the Seattle blogger meetup last night and we got the chance to mix it up with some seasoned Tablet PC vets like Robert Scoble (blogrolled).



Jowl played networked Nintendo DS games as well as demoed the PicoChat with Jake from 8bitjoystick (thanks for bringing the great gifts, Jake!). We shared a OneNote session which essentially means one person creates a OneNote session and then everybody that joins the OneNote session can collaborate on the document with their Tablet PC. Imagine having an office meeting with key heads of departments all with Tablet PCs and each one could add their notes in a different color pen on the document. Wow, very cool possibilities!

I met many other folks as they stopped by and checked out the Tablet PC corner (4 of us had Tablet PCs at the event, including Scoble); I was the only one with a pure slate and the other three had the Toshiba with the swivel screen and tablet/laptop combo. I lifted these Toshiba’s and they are lighter than they look (the M1400 slate is still lighter and thinner because there’s no keyboard). One gentleman commented that the brightness and angle of the M1400 makes it easier to read from a distance than the Toshiba, and that the Toshiba has received rave reviews. I figured if the Motion Tablet PC was good enough for an artist, than it was good enough for me (who would be more picky about a tablet device than an artist or someone who does drawing professionally?). I was concerned about when I snipped pictures using the Tablet they were always like 250k or larger and Scoble showed me that by uploading to my MSN Space I could automatically and easily have them compressed, sweet tip!

This is the second Blogger Meetup I’ve attended and the last one I sat near Dave Winer and this time I sat near Robert Scoble — that be good company for being a fly on the wall!



I’m not sure how my face is always obstructed from these group pictures, but that’s probably fine because nobody needs to see my ugly mug anyway. I think it is a bit humorous though that my face seems to avoid the camera’s wily eye. Thanks to Jon for taking the first picture (nice guy, too!).

Final thoughts: we were there ’til pretty much everyone had left (close to 10pm, 3 hours as it started at 7pm) and a child’s choo-choo train toy was left behind. I think this belongs to Anita’s husband Jack’s grandson. If it belongs to somebody else’s child that was there, then please let me know in the comments which future Seattle blogger meetup you’ll be at next so we can return the toy. We’ll bring the toy to the next Meetup that we attend. Can’t be without the train, especially in Seattle! WooooooooooHoooooo … a good time with lots of friendly people; maybe 10 or so more people than the first one I attended. Jowl says he’d love to come to another one.

• Seattle November 2004 Meetup tonight
• Art extravaganza at Feb 2005 Seattle Blogger Meetup
• First attended Seattle blogger meetup OPML of attendees blogs
• Packed house for January 2005 Seattle Blogger Meetup
• Tablet PC artists in the making
• Collaborative writing: watch a really bad drawing of Tablet Guy