We’re here at Northern Voice, the blogging conference I’ve been looking forward to for weeks. I haven’t done a lot of live blogging so I figured to get myself into the groove, I’ll start with asking participants to sign this online guest book:

Simon Koldyk – ScribbleWiki – WOOT! NORTHERNVOICE

Richard Eriksson – Just a Gwai Lo – Northern Voice 4 Life!

Alex Waterhouse-Hayward It’s a weblog

Pete Quily Thanks for running the Vancouver blogger meetup Isabella!

Jan Karlsbjerg Roedgroed med floede

Erica Hargreave – Always good to see you and get a hug Isabella!

Megan Cole – not the stripper from Louisiana… the *other* Megan Cole.

Arieanna Schweber – Swearing at the **** servers.

Ianiv Schweber – Taking pictures of Arieanna swearing at her blogs.

Tim Bray – happy to serve as the human foghorn at the live-sculpture session.

Carol Browne – and blogger for the Vancouver Metroblog – first time attender at this event. So far, so good!

Gene Smith – T minus 3 hours until I present

Luke Closs – Hells yes!

Ingy dot Net – I couldn’t get the umlaut.

Greg Andrews

Tim McAlpine (my blog)

Mary Brennan

Tzaddi Gordon

Beth Snow

See guys… I told you the sun shines sometimes in Vancouver! Thx for comin’ to Northern Voice. :) – kk+

Ahoy from UBC – Moosein’ along and stoked for the learning – DaveO

at nv – enjoying the moment and clicking through – superNova K

nv is why the web is beautiful – markmayo

Loosing the Moose for 4 years — James

More moose! Travis Smith

I am enjoying being at the conference. Being a blogging network was my favourite so far. mmccrae@yahoo.com

The Moose is definitely loose! – Mike Kelly

Northern Voice is a living community indicator and lives in the culture of love. Where else can you find the intersection of geekdom and love? Go NORTH! – Nancy White

Looks like a great spread for lunch. I hope they have a plan for the leftovers including Foodrunners or composting. Al Pasternak

Lunch at Northern Voice was nothing short of phenomenal! Jim Benson

Such an interesting crowd here, all twittering live! Megan Moser, megan@thinksalmon.com.

So inspiring… so many interesting ideas and people… MJ Ankenman

So glad to be back with the Moose! Inspiring and lots of great new ideas! Carol Sill

Glad to be Smarter than the average blog and blogging from Northern Voice Dumont Walker

I love events like this, and signing this guest book is a wonderful example of fresh thinking. Thanks Lloyd Budd.

Tak for alt! Tinfoiling

Yule Heibel — great to be at this conference, I get to meet Roland, yeah!

Werner Bahlke — es ist wunderbar wieder in Vancouver zu sein!

Rahel Bailie – enjoying my first Northern Voice conference. It’s a new conference model for me, one which I find refreshing.

Tanya (aka NetChick) – Loving seeing everyone! Great to see you, too, Isabella. Go blogs!