Yesterday I was in Brighton attending a workshop on Microformats. I was foolishly there more than an hour before I needed to be, so and wandered around for a while checking out the town center (yeah ok I was totally lost). Anyways the workshop was lead by and zomg Jeremy Keith zomg Tantek Çelik. Talk about the horses mouth! Zomg Andy Budd was mimbling about with a giant camera too. Yay web celebs! TBH I was really surprised exactly how good it was, I think it really helped that attendees all knew their stuff and were on the same page more or less; more likely to disagree with a philosophical point than to not follow what was being said. As such the veritable web titans were able to cover a lot of ground, based on the various kinds of microformats, their history, uses and implications. I was shocked when I realised how many pages of notes I'd taken.
It was also really interesting to hear them discuss data portability and its impact on the future the web. They seem pretty certain that Facebook's days are numbered as log as it remains a walled garden, for example. I found this short post entitled "There is no social network" that explains it really well.
So anyways, except for going over these notes and expanding on them, that's day one over. Tomorrow is another trip down to the coast for d.construct proper, with an all-star cast including zomg Cameron Moll and a few people I've met through Simon, strangely. If yesterday is anything to go by it should be totally sweet. Can't wait!