<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[On the grid at&nbsp;OffTheGrid]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fauxpress/210325123/" title="From the Faux Press"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/static.flickr.com/87/210325123_e07b939609_m.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>OK, you have to picture this. A resort in the middle of nowhere that&#8217;s been here for 100 years (Theodore Roosevelt stopped here when he was planning the first national park). How weird is this resort? Well, its front driveway is a landing strip.</p>
<p>Now, look at the front porch. There&#8217;s nine geeks all on laptops checking their email, blogging, uploading videos, or watching the keynote from yesterday.</p>
<p>Yeah, <a href="http://www.eclecticismo.com/nwlog/WheresScoble.aspx">Herschel Horton, that&#8217;s exactly</a> where we are (he found an image on Google Earth of my mom&#8217;s house)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ekai/sets/72157594227012560/">Eddie has first photos</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2006/08/07/robert-scobles-visit-to-slc/">Laura Moncur has video</a> from the Salt Lake brunch we had on the way here.</p>
<p>Anyway, the mix of people here is just perfect. There are a couple of families. A professor. A couple of CEOs. A couple of hard core geeks (one wrote the software for Microsoft&#8217;s wheel mouse). A few video bloggers. A few locals. A few eccentrics.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s Blogher meets Gnomedex. With no agenda other than to get <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ekai/208600720/">to Chico, go swimming</a>, and get on Wifi. Anyway, having fun in the sun.</p>
<p>30 people is a perfect size for a campout. That&#8217;s enough so that you get enough diversity and you get enough time with each person to really have a good conversation. We stayed up last night until about 3 a.m. just talking.</p>
<p>Richard White, founder of <a href="http://www.kiko.com/">KikoCalendar</a> and <a href="http://slimtimer.com/">SlimTimer</a>, <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/20/slimtimer-makes-task-timing-easy/">which got a nice writeup in TechCrunch</a>, was here and he was suprised to find some users of his product here.</p>
<p>John Masterson, founder of <a href="http://www.grupthink.com/">GrupThink</a> brought his homebrew beer, which we&#8217;ll start consuming soon. Grupthink is lots of fun to browse through. It&#8217;s a site where you can get your questions answered.</p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="http://fauxpress.blogspot.com/">Jan McLaughlin for the photo</a>. We just couldn&#8217;t stay off the grid. But, now it&#8217;s &#8220;jump in the pool&#8221; time. More later.</p>
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