AOU 2008 Show Opens

In about 3 hours, the AOU 2008 event will be opening at Makuhari Messe in Japan. Unfortunately, I'm not going to have any contacts there for the first day, but tomorrow (the public day - which will begin early evening Central time), I will have two people on hand to provide a few thoughts about the show. All of the coverage I have posted from various sources in regards to AOU 2008 so far can be found here. Alternatively, the general link list that I've updated through yesterday is here.

My first day updates for the event are going to be a little bit behind in keeping up with the various Japanese sources. This is one part due to the holiday (happy valentine's day lovey) and a second part due to the fact that I will be travelling until late tomorrow afternoon. I will however compile a complete update of day 1 information early tomorrow evening prior to the second day of the show opening. There may be some sporadic posts before that, but I'm not guaranteeing anything specific at this point.

The day two coverage will be entirely different however. For the entire second day of the event, most of the coverage that I post will be coming directly via phone from the two people who will be at the exhibit hall. I will also make sure that everything is a bit more fleshed out from the first day for the second day of coverage.

Feel free to check out any of my various links on the left hand column of the site to try to keep up to date in between my own updates. Most of the sources should be following the show pretty closely as well...

I've heard that there is supposedly a tighter restriction on cameras on both days of the event this time around (unlike at the AM show where despite the no camera signs, cell phone cameras were everywhere). We'll have to see if this ends up restricting the video/images coming out of the event for "unauthorized" sources. I'm sure that our various friends on YouTube however will end up sneaking out enough videos to keep us all satisfied...

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