The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2004 schedule is starting to look interesting. I'm sure I won't be the first to mention this but it's oddly balanced, or even rather imbalanced.

I'm really pleased for Russ who gets a monster 3 hour session on day one - The Joys and Wonders of Mobile Web Services with J2ME now if anyone can talk for 3 hours on a subject he's really excited about it's Russ! And mobile tech (primarily as in phones) gets about 10 hours worth of sessions in all which is great.

#mobitopia guys Chris Heathcote and Ewan Spence also get some interesting sessions, Chris on 35 ways to find your location, and Ewan on OPL (could it really be on anything else?).

I feel sorry for the Foaf folks though, apart from Dan Brickley (no relation to Dan Bricklin) and Edd Dumbill's Fear of a FOAF Planet - Acronyms and Activism on the Semantic Web session (what a great title!), they get jammed into a bunch of five minute sessions, San Diego is a hell of a long way to travel from Brizzle (ILRT - Foaf's spiritual home) for a five minute talk.