Never sure if I have the sports metaphors exactly right, but I’ll toe the rubber and try the slider.

Hmm, that sounds weirder and weirder.

I’m sitting here next to Leslie Madsen-Brooks and Chris Lott, my fellow “designated bloggers” at the New Media Consortium’s 2009 annual conference. We’ll be live-blogging the plenary events. I’m in some pretty outstanding company at this table–in the room, too, as many of my favorite thinker-practitioner-imagineers are seated within an easy hailing distance, with the intellectual ferment and freewheelingness that implies.

The introduction is going on now, mentioning collective brainpower and the sessions ahead. I feel the Muses descend upon us. Hail Terpsichore! Hail Urania! Hail Euphrosyne! (Not a muse, but stay with me.) At last, back to metaphors I understand….

Excelsior!