I am writing this from my hotel room in the Marriot San Francisco.  I have checked in and now have my press pass as a staff writer for AltSearchEngines to cover the conference: Health 2.0: User-Generated Healthcare. This is a jam-packed event.  And I have to cover it with Microsoft Office 2007 (which is new to me) on a new laptop.  Your patience is therefore appreciated.  I was offered a free T-shirt.  This is a swanky hotel and I am little yokel.  I am going in search of food soon. I have never covered a conference as a reporter before. As I say, your patience is therefore appreciated.

The first speakers will be the conference organizers, Indu Subaiya, MD and Matthew Holt who will speak on The Future of Health 2.0. Then will come Mr. Techno Trends himself, Clay Shirky as the keynote speaker. His talk is entitled, Here Comes Health. Should be fun to hear in person a pundit one has only heretofore read about.
Missed the opening schmooze session. I do have to work in my other life in our medical library, after all and only just got here.

This conference is an ideal mix of info on consumer health sites and services, medical-related search and informatics. More and more that is the world of medical librarianship—and things anyone who will ever get sick will encounter at some point.

More later!

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