!(left)http://conferences.oreillynet.com/images/et2003/etcon_butterfly2.gif!If I could have spirited my tele-self to just one virtual session this year, I think I might have chosen Matt Jones and James Cronin's presentation yesterday at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003:

The BBC's public service remit makes them natural candidates to provide social software in the UK, and also inclusive demands design.

Then again, it would probably just get me all depressed when I realized there's less than a Hades snowflakes chances of even opening such a discussion among any of the Canadian broadcasters.