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Big thanks to Rich who managed to assist in sorting out a pass to WWW 2006, held just down the road from my office.

I managed to catch a few of the mobile sessions, which were of particular interest, although it was disappointing to see where the W3C Mobile Web Initiative had got to (PDF document). These were things I could have written down five years ago. Dan Applequist is not a stupid guy, so I'm really wondering why it has taken so long to get such a short distance along the road...

There were a few propellerhead sessions (Semantic XML Meta-data Trust Annotations for the Mobile Web @-), which did leave my head spinning as I hoped they would.

Hopefully Rich doesn't kill me for saying this, but the Edinburgh information page for the conference seems to have been blatantly ripped off from somewhere else around the Web and isn't completely relevant to this time of year. The wiki was woefully underused, and I can't believe there was no-one there blogging or podcasting. If Web professionals don't use tools like these, what hope is there that others will???