I got back to California from NYC just in time to enjoy a day that reminded me exactly why I yearned to work in Silicon Valley in the first place. Yesterday was the TechCrunch Real Time Stream Crunchup , a one day conference packed with excellent panel discussions and speakers, plus a handful of fantastic demos (including our own launch of Qik Push APIs and phone-to-phone live video streaming ). The content of the day was good and often hilarious – Mike Arrington always cracks me up; I’d love to see him moderate every panel.

Social Media Updates for 2009-07-12 – chris.pirillo.com 07/12/2009 5 Reasons Why “X reasons Why Z” Lists are Stupid: http://bit.ly/5hshy [Recursiveness, FTW!] # Kayaking the Day Away http://bit.ly/T8FWG # I’m sorry, but raw fish (from the Pacific Northwest) trumps cooked fish every time (and nothing trumps Swedish Fish). # Internet Famous http://bit.ly/wTNvf # Kodak Zx1 http://bit.ly/uNroP # http://seesmic.com/ is amazing.