I'm here on stage at the American Chemical Society to participate in the Creative Network's panel discussion on blogging. The audience is 75 web managers from a variety of organizations around the D.C. area. My co-panelists are Lee Rainie of the PEW Internet & American Life Project and Thomas Vander Wal of Indus Corp.

- mike lee - washington, dc

While typing in a short blurb about myself into a Meetup.com profile form earlier this week, I realized there was a 250 character text field limit that clipped my last sentance to a funny result. I originally typed this:

Now I direct a team of people in Washington, D.C. who produce content, publish e-mail newsletters and manage message boards for AARP.org.

Which became this (emphasis added):

Now I direct a team of people in Washington, D.C. who produce content, publish e-mail newsletters and manage mess

I laughed out loud at my desk and rewrote:

Now I direct a team of people in Washington, D.C. who produce content for AARP.org.

- mike lee - washington, dc

Peter Schmitt of the Smart Cities project is giving us a show of a series of wildly innovative car designs. For example, a small car that nests together with others of its kind the way shopping carts do (3). The Smart Car project is a collaboration between GM, Frank O. Gehry and MIT.

- mike lee - cambridge, ma

We got a guided tour of the relatively new Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center just before lunch. Amy is pictured here chaulking a hangman drawing on the public blackboards in the main concourse of the building. Then we met up with Professor Ariely for some stimulating conversation at Legal Seafoods on Main Street.

- mike lee - cambridge, ma

Kelly Dobson updates on her series of wearable body organs ... And it's a treat today to get a live demo of Leonardo, a sociable robot.

- mike lee - cambridge

Carlos, Noah and Kelly of John Maeda's Physical Language Workshop are giving my colleages Amy and Michael the background on the group's projects. Among other things, we're looking at a prototype of a sensetable, which can simultaneously track the location of several specially-tagged pucks (3), and Noah is demoing the custom-built RFID reader module (4) as applied to navigating large digital picture picture archives.

- mike lee - cambridge

After a nice dinner at our hotel's Black Sheep Restaurant, Amy G, Michael and I took a taxi through the Ted Williams Tunnel (1) to the Simons IMAX Theater (2) to catch the new 3D movie Aliens of the Deep(3). The smiles you see under our 3D glasses (5) are of three people who were amazed by the super-high resolution footage of the exotic creatures (4) which inhabit the micro-ecologies around hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. After the movie, we enjoyed the warm night and walked over to the domed archway at Rowes Wharf (6).

- mike lee - cambridge, ma

Leaving from DCA with Amy G and Michael for another visit to the Media Lab.

- mike lee - on american eagle outside gate 33 at reagan airport

With the Aunties at Al Pacino Cafe. Cianna got her first tastes of hummus, pita, feta and falafel and loved it all.

- mike lee - baltimore