I got to ETech yesterday morning about 3/4ths of the way into Cory Doctorow's talk. The only seat left happened to be right next to Joel Splosky (aka "the other Joel"), so that's where I sat.

Next was some dude talking about his crappy Java reimplementation of an HTTP stack.

Jimmy (jwales) was up next. He talked about (you guessed it) Wikipedia.

After Jimmy's talk there was a panel consisting of Jimmy, Joshua Schachter (aka "the del.icio.us guy"), Stewart Butterfield (aka "the flickr guy"), and Clay Shirky called Folksonomy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess, which ruled.

After that there were a bunch of other talks before lunch which I'm going to skip describing.

I went to lunch with Jimmy and Bob Rosenschein (the answers.com guy). Had a very good time; Bob is a really awesome guy, and Jimmy of course rules. I made Jimmy do the Dad thing and show me pictures of Kira, who is now much bigger than when I last saw her. Word.

After lunch I went to the last half of the other Joel's Building Communities with Software talk, which was actually much more like a "how to make people love your product" talk. Then Jason Fried ("the Basecamp guy") gave an excellent talk on Lessons Learned While Building Basecamp.

Then I went home.