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I think live blogging comes in all forms and means different things to different people. Carolyn, I believe you did a fabulous job of capturing the feel of the unconference in your statement - "The main thoughts made it to the screen, but there were simply too many ambient thoughts to do a good job."
- for me, that statement summed up the conference. So much more was learned from the conversations around the tables.

You're right about those table conversations, Lizzie. And thank you. You just put the live and the follow-up posts in perspective for me. Next time, though, I might post live when things are a little quieter.

Multitasking is really deceiving. Many have tried it and failed because we are not meant to do it. Because of the easy life technology is providing us, we easily think that there is always a faster way.

And how much speed can we reasonably expect, Pamela? I find it ironic that two half-hour tasks done simultaneously take an hour and a half to finish. Where's the speed factor there?

Perhaps there are those who can multi-task, but I'm in your camp: not meant to do it.

True. Some are probably born with the kind of focus wherein they are able to do things simultaneously with the same results. Practice will only make us familiar with the task but not accurate enough to deliver the same results with different tasks.

Well, Alan, I've tried to get good results with multi-tasking, but it appears my best bet it to continue practicing each task separately.

I think it's great for those people who can focus on more than one thing at a time, but I wish the rest of us would realize it's a specialty, not a stock item.