I have stated that the camera guy was an ass. I'm willing to revise that to that he was being an ass. Admittedly I don't know the guy, and the people who agreed with me at the time also don't know the guy. Other people who I've talked to who do know him have come to his defense and I respect that. I'm standing by my statements that he handled the situation(s) wrong but at this point I think that was probably due to his current stress levels and not his general persona.

The thing about blogging is it's the great equalizer, everyone is on the same level and everyone has a voice. Good, Bad or Ugly you and I have the same right and the same chance to make our statements. That's one thing I love about conferences like this, when you get to meet the people whose sites you read. You get to meet the people who you respect and look up to in this "space" and find out that they are real people to. Someone whose site gets millions of readers is just as accessible as someone with 10 regular readers. It's very cool, and exciting. That's how I was feeling when all this went down - and I felt like I was some high schooler being scolded by the assistant principal and I reacted to that. Anyone who reads this site knows I've never been good at keeping my mouth shut (something I consider to be equally one of best / worst personality traits).

Soct, if you are reading this, I absolutely think you were being a dick yesterday, but I have a lot of friends who have been dicks on plenty of occasions, and I'm certainly guilty of it myself from time to time. I'm very glad to hear from yourself and your friends that you are not a dick most of the time, and and are actually a fairly nice guy. That's a good thing to hear.

I look forward to meeting you some other time when there's no tripod or power-strips causing problems.