I'm supposed to be in California right now for the Annual LITA Forum (follow along at the LITA Blog, getting ready to co-present on RSS with John Law from ProQuest this weekend. However, with everything going on at home, I just didn't feel comfortable leaving right now.

You can imagine how guilty I feel about this, but Karen Schneider has agreed to present my slides in my place, so I want to publicly thank her and encourage all LITA attendees to cheer her on, thank her for me, and even buy her a drink (afterwards, not before!). In fact, if you buy her a beer, send me the bill and I'll pay you back for her drink and yours. :-)

Aside from my appreciation, though, I think you should go see the presentation anyway because John's slides of ProQuest's RSS implementation fall into the "too-damn-cool" category. I can't wait for the final product to be released, and I think a lot of folks are going to get even more excited about RSS after they see this. It will help turn on a lot of those light bulbs.

So, my apologies to LITA attendees that I can't be there in person, a big "good luck" to John and Karen, and one more "really big thanks" for Karen!