This morning is really the first chance I've taken since I arrived to look around the bay again. I'm hoping the sun to burn off the fog enough for me to get some color in my shot.

Between early morning networking breakfasts and late night events, and the conference itself, there's been little time to moblog/blog. Walking between between conference sessions is evenfull too having brushed by the likes of Al Gore, Sergey Brin (Google founder), Tony Robbins (motivational speaker) Meg Ryan, Steve Jurvetsen (venture capitalist), and countless others. The TED blog is updating daily. Here's day two in quotes. There's also an official TED Flickr gallery.

Though it's most desirable to be in the main auditorium, especially for the live musical performances, I spent some of the sessions in the overflow simulcast lounge (2-3), which was quite comfy with a variety of couches and ergo chairs.

I thanked Mena Trott (5) for bringing MovableType and TypePad (with her husband) into the world. She gave a very personal, funny talk about blogging.

The drumming circle (7) was held Thursday night by the beach. There were something like 100 people gathered around a campfire pounding drums. It was a good way to shake the overload of the day off.

The guys from Inventables.com talked about their design materials subscription service where for something like $1000 a month, they send you an idea box of amazing new product design materials. They gave everyone at the conference a sample of crushable electroluminescent sheet. (8)

The last session yesterday was held out of the conference center at the newly-rennovated Golden State Theater. For the first time in years, all 1000 conference goers were reunited in one venue. (9)

The grand party last night was held at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, (10) and I got my cliche shot of the jellyfish.

Well, it doesn't look like the clouds are going to open to give me a great sunrise shot. Back to the conference.

More pix are in my Flickr photo set.

- mike lee - monterey, ca