Anxiously waiting on Mash Pit results

I’m periodically checking Brad Neuberg’s site to see what the results of Mash Pit were. Looks like they broke up into some groups, one of them doing something with “ego tracking across the blogosphere and web”. I’d like to see what they come up with. It’s unfortunate I wasn’t able to make it even for the demos. There were some folks in town that I wanted to meet with today so I stayed in the south bay.

If you don’t know about Mash Pit, it’s sort of like our Hack Day except that the participants are from all over the place. The get together in the morning and do some intros, talk about ideas, then fork of into ninja squadrons and start coding. At around 5ish, it’s time to demo what you have done. It’s that type of work that I’m a big fan of. Because time is short, you don’t work on anything that people aren’t passionate about. It just doesn’t bubble up. People get fired up to work on something and they start cranking and by the end of the day problems have been explored and at the very least everyone involved knows a hell of a lot more than they did in the morning.