Here's a shot of the start of the day.
I was immediately overwhelmed when I walked off of the elevator into the top floor classroom in the Annenberg School. About thirty or so people were already there, an additional dozen or so would come before things got underway and after the lunch break. I recognized some familiar faces. Local people like Dan Rubin, Will Bunch, Aaron Couch, Howard Hall, Karl Martino, Duncan Black, Susie Madrak and Matt Gold.
But I'd hear so many other people speak throughout the day. People from PhillyBlog, Annenberg work study studennts, Daily News interns, someone from Pew Charitable Trusts. People from the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, the brass from PNI, columnists, writers, editors, managers from under the PNI umbrella. Harry B. Cook from Philly1. People from Philly IMC [who shot video of the day along with short interviews], the NYC Indypendent. A sports writer from the Daily Pennsylvanian. People from Dragonfire. People from the tech side of Comcast. Paul Socolar from The Philadelphia Public School Notebook, Greg Palmer of Keystone Politics, Jeff Jarvis, from Buzz Machine among other ventures and Dean of the Annenberg School Michael X Delli Carpini.
That's just a partial list of everyone who was there. I can only begin to start digesting all of this a day later. I've put up a flickr set of the first edit of seventy-four down from 300+. And I've gone through those seventy-four and whittled it down a bit to thirty-eight shots that have been edited with a little post processing and some cropping here and there.
Stories of the day to come still...
