Mid-ObzFest Blogging

Hi everyone ObzFest is a lot of fun - just arrive, and within about five minutes of walking around run into people you know, chill with a drink and chat and move on, only to run into more friends (repeat). It's a multiplied version of Stones, with live bands and more chilled bars like Roots with nice atmosphere and stupendous cover charge for it. But: the means of actively co-ordinating with friends needs improvement! Normal phone calls simply do not work. SMSing is strictly one-on-one - it takes lots of SMSing to get a few of people together and even then you're out of sync. What a pain. I don't know how well MXit works as an alternative. A possible answer, I believe, is Twitter (or identi.ca). 1. Sign up at twitter.com. Follow your friends (all of them), and your friends will follow you as well. 2. Install a twitter-supporting app like Fring on your phone. I haven't done this because I need a new phone (Lazyweb recommendations?). 3. Go to ObzFest or other massive event. 4. Tweet "graham: is at Stones for the next hour or so". Friends phones may beep briefly to note they have new tweets. They in turn can tweet "Joining graham at Stones", or generally post their own locations, and groups will gather naturally. Problem solved. Except for the little problem of getting sufficiently wide-spread technology adoption.