Happy Thanksgiving!

• I gotta thank Derek Miller for doing the Gnomedex 6.0 song. It was campy fun! Of course, I really think his jam with Doug Kaye and Dave Dederer was more of a defining moment set to music: tech enthusiasts collaborating with popular culture. Amazing.
• While I know there were a few suggestions put forward for a Gnomedex MVP, Kaliya was applauded onto the stage – where she lead an impromptu session on identity. What’s most interesting is a conversation she and I had on Friday night, when I was trying to explain the energy you can only get when having a single-track event. She didn’t believe me until the end of Saturday’s activities. Thanks, Identity Woman, for participating.
• Huge thanks to both TopTenSources and Snapstream for providing television feeds to attendees who really wanted to watch the World Cup and/or (scrubbed) Shuttle launch. These supportive efforts were proposed and accepted on-the-spot. I love the power of community – and I also love the sponsors who support it.
• Geeky shout-outs to Kosso, for generating a better Gnomedexer OPML – and Dave for linking to it.
• I’m sure I’m forgetting others in this post about thanking the people I forgot to thank. Thank you for understanding that my “thank you” is always implied, if not stated directly. Thank you.

…for all the fish

I swear, I’m not leaving anybody out intentionally (if I do, I will edit the post if corrected appropriately). I hate naming names because I really want to give everybody credit for the help they’ve given us for Gnomedex 6 activities. If your name gets left out, I promise to make it up to you. Thanks goes to:

• Ponzi!
• My parents: Joe & Judy Pirillo
• Sponsors: Microsoft; Yahoo; GoDaddy; Ask; AMD; CacheFly; MindJet; PRWeb; Waggener Edstrom; WetPaint; WeatherBug; WhatCounts
• Volunteers: Aryeh Goretsky; Lockergnome Forum Moderators; Boris Mann; Kosso; Andru & Monica Edwards; Harry Hayes; Maryam Scoble (and her friend, Leyla); Nancy Folsom; Jake Ludington; Brandon Paddock;
• Discussion Leaders and Participants: Steve Gillmor; Werner Vogels; Susan Mernit; Steve Rubel; Pud Kaplan; pt; Michael Arrington ; Marc Canter; Halley Suitt; Ethan Kaplan; Dave Winer; Dave Dederer; Chris Messina; John Edwards; Blake Ross; Robert Scoble
• Gnomedexers: past, present, and future
• Core Lockergnome Team: Bob Fogarty; Shayne Sweeney; Matt Hartley; Mitch Keeler; Diana Huggins; Countless Contributing Authors

Thank You, Thank You