Leading up to today, I had been a little nervous about attending the Society of Professional Journalists conference. I tend to feel somewhat out of place at these things, and you know I get stressed out when I don’t know what to expect or exactly what I’m supposed to do.

Now that I’m here though I’m having a lovely time. I went to three seminars in this afternoon, and have at least two more to attend tomorrow. Weirdly, the one I’ve found most interesting was all about copyright law and the internet. Fascinating right? But the thing is, it really was. The time just flew by and I feel like I have a much better handle on how copyrights work, specifically with Web content.

The other two seminars I attended were about blogs — probably a little basic but I got some good ideas for blogs for our paper — and new technologies in journalism. At the beginning of that one, I was skeptical about how useful it wold be, but there was one idea I got that was probably worth the whole hour. I think we may be able to use Twitter in a good way, so I’m excited about that.

In a way, I wish I could stay through Sunday, but the budget just doesn’t allow that many nights in a fancy schmancy hotel. So I’m planning to get as much as possible out of my two days here.