Ethan Zuckerman has the sort of life that every academic dreams of: He travels all over the world going to conferences where really smart people, some of them famous, talk about interesting things. And he doesn't even have to grade exam papers, or attend boring faculty meetings.
His latest jaunt was to the Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, and he has blogged it extensively. Highlights range from Steve Wozniak talking about the birth of Apple to James McLurkin's swarms of robots to Dirk Brockmann using dollar bills for epidemiology (hey to Tara and Revere). Like all of his conference blogging, it's chock full of good stuff, so go check it out.
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