the ryan king

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Micorosoft and Mozilla use the same brand and model for their bags. Who’s copying whom?

I’ve gotten to be a part of some awesome things this year, here’s a recap. Last year I started recapping my year, but only made it through the first month. I’ll try and make it farther this time.

BarCamp

Back in ‘05, BarCamp was started by a bunch of techno-hippies (including myself) in SF. In 2006, BarCamp took off. I can’t even tell you all the countries that have had BarCamps– it’s become an international phenomenon.

SxSW

I got to go to SxSW for the first time this year. On the urging of Tantek I stayed for music. It was probably the best week of my year– the first half was all geekery and free beer. The second half was all music and more music. Getting to hang out with some super music geeks made it even more rocktacular.

XTech, WWW2006

I proposed and got accpeted presentations at XTech, in Amsterdam, and WWW2006 in Edinburgh. Since they were in back to back weeks, I made a long trip of it, stopping off in London on my way home. I got to meet a number of people who I’d only know there the Internets.

The strangest moment was when I was giving a developer’s tutorial on microformats at WWW2006 (with Suda, filling in for Molly) and I was going through my typical intro material of “History of HTML”. Of course, as I was doing this, none other than Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of HTML, was sitting in the second row.

Critical Mass

I rode Critical Mass on Halloween. If you’re not familiar with Critical Mass, it’s a monthly bike ride takes place in many cities, where cyclists meet in large enough groups to take over the streets. The SF Halloween Critical Mass ride was literally thousands of riders, if not ten thousand. We disrupted the entire city’s traffic for an entire evening.

Finishing Grad School

’nuff said.