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LineBlog: News from Moscone
I have a live feed to Mike Rose and Nik Fletcher this morning and they report that the weather is very cold out there this morning. They've been waiting on line with many other patient well-behaved Apple enthusiasts this morning. The Platinum Pass holders are already being let in, cheering as they're given the go-ahead.
10:12 - Nik reports that a few guys came by a while back with free coffee on a rolling cart--not Starbucks and on the sketchy side.
Mike reports that he's spotted Ryan Fass from Computer World, Galen Wood from MacNN, and Sergio from Brazil.
Nik has spotted Isaiah, one of the 3rd party RW plugin devs and an EVDO engineer (who is reassuring him that everyone will have enough bandwidth to liveblog.
10:20: So what are people looking forward to from the Keynote? Galen Wood (MacNN) says that the underdog vote has "everyone back home thinking new MacBook Pros at Macstation... MacBook Air would be cool to see." Other votes from people in line: "My personal wish is a Canadian iPhone", "Subnotebook, iPhone 1.1.3, apple tv merge with Mac mini", "Wimax maybe".
10:25: Positioning update. Nik is inside Moscone while Mike shivers with the general media queue outside.
10:30: Join us over at #tuaw on

11:27: Michael Johnston from iphonealley.com says they will be doing live video (!) from inside the keynote. Hope the site holds up.
11:31 The media crowd is quite massive. Want to chat live with TUAW? Join us on IRC --
#tuaw on irc.freenode.net
11:31: Nik, inside, is told to "respect the escalators." So, no one there can apparently complain that they are too slow -- at least within earshot of the escalators themselves.
11:52: They're moving inside. Liveblog continues in the next post. We'll stay in IRC for all your chatting and wildin' out needs. Have fun with the keynote!


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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ferfaniel said 10:47AM on 1-15-2008
The non-starbucks coffee is a clear indicator that apple is going to launch their own record label. Starbucks would naturally be 'bitter' about that, if not 'roasted'.
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Chris P. said 11:00AM on 1-15-2008
Wonk wonk... lol Nice one ferfaniel
Shear Mohammed said 11:04AM on 1-15-2008
You got an idea of what they gonna call it? I say iRecord, iStudio, iJayZ
lol
Richard said 10:49AM on 1-15-2008
I don't see the #tuaw channel on irc.freenode.net
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Shear Mohammed said 11:00AM on 1-15-2008
The IRC does not work!
Go on, update up a bit more!
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OneMoreAnimal said 11:05AM on 1-15-2008
I think it's time for East Coasters to switch from saying "on line" to "in line." It really makes more sense and eliminates the ambiguity of "waiting online" vs "waiting on line".
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Nik said 11:09AM on 1-15-2008
In line? On line? Why can't you just queue up like us Brits.
Sean Flanagan said 11:46AM on 1-15-2008
We Americans have a fear of quadruple vowels and silent "U"s.
BTW, on the east coast, we stand in line and wait on line. "Line" means two different things there. It's an understood indefinite article thing.
Rick Proctor said 11:12AM on 1-15-2008
Please make this entry bottom-up. It's not too late to stop... I neeeeed to see the newest stuff on top.
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JayCubCO said 11:12AM on 1-15-2008
Refresh our memories...what time is the actual keynote today?
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Zelaurent said 11:16AM on 1-15-2008
Oh yeah! I wish, I pray to have a Canadian iPhone. Please God (aka Steve), listen your kids ;)
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Shear Mohammed said 11:28AM on 1-15-2008
That is going abit too far calling Steve, God!
More like, iJesus or you could call him a post man
Richard said 11:17AM on 1-15-2008
irc channel still isn't up...
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Mike Schramm said 11:24AM on 1-15-2008
I've been in there chatting for almost an hour, and we're at 300 people. It is up.
Richard said 11:56AM on 1-15-2008
Please let us know how to get on. I am on Colloquy and #tuaw isn't listed on irc.freenode.net (used file > Join Chat Room...)
ThomasShaped said 11:25AM on 1-15-2008
WHAR'S MAI IRC?
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Zools said 11:26AM on 1-15-2008
I'm with Rick, Bottom Up!!!
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Jeff said 11:27AM on 1-15-2008
So, all we have to do is go to "irc.freenode.net" to get in? why is it down???
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Garrick said 11:27AM on 1-15-2008
Are these times EST? They can't be PST...
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Jeff said 11:28AM on 1-15-2008
So, all we have to do is go to irc.freenode.net right?
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