I’d meant to post this picture last night as part of my post reflecting on the Macworld 2008 Keynote but I forgot. I just found it sitting on my desktop today and decided to share it anyway. Since the keynote is no longer streamed live by Apple we Mac faithful who can’t make it for real have to try get what ever scraps of info we can from those lucky few who can. You obviously can’t rely on a single source since Macworld Keynotes tend to take down websites and different people will report different bits of info. You also need to be prepared. You need to get into the relevant IRC rooms early before they fill up etc.. To facilitate all this I created an extra space in Leopard in which I laid out everything I needed and had it all ready to go well before kick-off. I took a screen shot which I’ll stick in at the end of the post.

You can see that I had MacRumours’ coverage open which turned out to be very good. You can also see Twitterific open showing the ArsTechnica twitter feed which turned out to be not so good – Macworld was just too much for twitter which fell over in a heap. Next up I had two IRC sessions going, one to the ArsTechnical room for keynote coverage which proved to be the best coverage I got, and one to the IRC server of my college netsoc. Finally, I had iChat open to make sure I didn’t miss anything that Allison of the NosillaCast podcast caught, and later to chat to Victor from the Typical Mac User Podcast who was actually in the keynote.

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[tags]Macworld, MacRumours, ArsTechnica, Apple[/tags]