The two high points of SXSW so far have been Kathy Sierra’s presentation How to Create Passionate Users and the Roll Your Own Web Conference panel, hosted by Jeffrey Zeldman and sporting an all-star cast consisting of Bruce Livingstone, Erec Meyer, Maxine Sherrin, Jason Fried, and Molly Ditmore. Wow, what fun!

I felt priveleged to have a chance to meet Ryan and Gillian Carson of Carson Systems and Carson Workshops after the “Roll Your Own Web Workshop” panel. Of course I had to wait in line with Technorati founder Tantek Celak first.

To a web application developer like me, this is like being at the Grammys and having a chance to rub elbows with the stars. I mean seriously, out in the hall I was bumping into (litterally – sorry guys) people like Shaun Inman, Jim Coudal, Ryan Sims”, and even Jason Fried (if you know me, you know that Jason is one of my heros).

Not to mention having dinner with standardistas like Nathan Smith Nathan Logan and Cody Lindey from the Godbit Project and other notable folks like Jonathan Snook. Am I missing anyone? The list goes on like the 9rules blogroll.

Tonight is the great Godbit dinner – I’ll let you know how that turns out!