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There are about 10 of us sitting around waiting for Barcamp Atlanta day 2 to begin - eating some biscuits and hanging out. Day 1 was packed with tons of presentations and information. I sat in on the following presentations:

• Atlanta Start Weekend 2 and how it’ll be different from last year. The main thing is there won’t be any companies formed up front, and that the group of participants can split up into as many groups as they want and work on as many projects as they want. Also heard a pitch from Paul and Skribit (which I’m using, and you should either submit or vote on content suggestions)
• Startup Branding - basic concepts of a brand and how to manage it as a startup.
• Commercial Space Development - Presentation by Michael Mealling, VP of Business Development for Masten Space Systems, a private company working on completely re-usable sub-orbital spacecraft.
• Political Panel - this was a discussion turned debate with a representative from the libertarian, republican, democrat, and independent viewpoints. Entertaining to say the least, but focused on talking about how to build an environment where diverse views can exist without shoving them down each other’s throats.
• “How to build buzz without being a scumbag spammer” - interesteding discussion on blogging / publicity, etc and getting known in a given community. Some different opinions on that one… but we kept coming back to “It depends on who your market is.”
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun - breaking a racquetball after it was frozen… cool stuff. Then came the frozen food. Frozen marshmallows, frozen cheetos, and of course ice cream created with liquid nitrogen.

Good stuff. Off to day two. I have two presentations today - 9AM on VOIP on the iPhone, and 10:30 on blogging. Should be fun stuff.

Take care,

Colin