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Spent the weekend being Programming Operations for ConFusion.

This means every 45 minutes you have to jump to keep the con running, rather than running from Cylons.

Thanks to those who helped out, a great and diverse bunch of GOH's and sorry I could not take time to talk much and hang out.

Saw lots of old faces, many new ones and a few unexpected ones.

I think everyone had a good time and enjoyed themselves.

Boy was it cold.

Weird moment of the weekend, woke up Sat. at 7:39 AM because it felt right and this got me to the con programming check in desk just in time to great the U of M Genre Evolution folk to their first con.

Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This is a NY Times article on how cellphone novels, mostly written by young women on cellphones, have come to dominate the bestsellers lists in Japan, albeit in paper form.

The dawn of a new media, a new genre and a new HUGO category.