Well, at least the first batch of recaps, reminiscences, and assessments of the just wrapped Personal Democracy Forum 2009 are starting to bubble up. But don't spend all day trawling the Internet looking for commentary. I'm here for you. Let me do it. We'll highlight more as they come in, but here's a few to get us started:

• Rory O'Connor has a run down of the whole program, which is a great overview if you weren't able to attend. He writes: "[N]o one questions any longer the primacy of the Internet and its attendant technologies. Instead, attention is now shifting toward how best to use these emerging media -- and the social networks that power them -- to transform the body politic."
• The Wall Street Journal's Kimberly Chou covers yesterday's conversation of journalists about what, if any, role Twitter played in the Iranian uprising. Chou quotes the New York Times' Frank Rich: "As great as Twitter was for getting the story out, it overstated the revolution."
• Wired's Shelley Dubois reports that media anthropologist Michael Wesch wowed the crowd with his ethnography of "whatever." (If you caught Wesch's preso, here, for your re-viewing pleasure is "Charlie Bit Me" and attendant remixes. The original video has been viewed 105 million times. Million. I was an anthro major, so I know that the term of art in the field for that is insane.)
• The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas highlights the reception of the "King of Geek," otherwise known as U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra. Vargas makes a lovely allusion to the fact that holding the event in the Jazz at Lincoln Center space was fitting, giving all the riffing and creative experimentation that went on.
• Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America's executive director Paul Rieckhoff, who has been pushing for veterans' rights creatively and persistently for some time now, was interviewed at PdF by Eric Kuhn about how IAVA uses Ning.
• Air America Media shot a bunch of video with attendees and presenters. Have a look. And we've got some videos ourselves, with more to come.
• The final tally of PdF '09 related tweets comes in at about 18,600, from more than 3,000 different folks. Amazing.
• And there was an entirely sensible act.ly petition floating around asking that next year's PdF not start at the unholy hour of 8:30 in the morning. It was barely light out! If you can find that petition, or if you started it, please pass along a link.

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