Wow, what a weekend. I woke up on Saturday morning at 4:30AM in order to get ready in time to shower, get ready, pack, and leave to make the 7AM Chinatown bus with @ChrisRicca.

It was actually the first time I met Chris in real life, but given that we’ve been Twitter buddies for awhile, we were able to immediately launch into an interesting, lively conversation. And then the early morning rise caught up with us, and we promptly passed out for the remainder of the bus ride.

We accidentally took the scenic route (read: got hopelessly lost) from the T-station to the location of BarCamp3. We ended up appreciating our little excursion, as it was an absolutely gorgeous day in Boston. Upon arriving, we jumped right into the sessions.

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My favorite part about the entire event was the way the session schedule was put together. Basically, they put a huge piece of brown shipping paper up on the wall, provided a stack of huge Post-It notes, a handful of Sharpies, and let people just go at it. A very smart mob-like approach.

For the people who were unsure there would be enough interest in the topic they wanted to present on, there was a separate board where you could stick up an idea, and let people up-mod it. My personal favorite was all of the responses written on the “Who is the last Cylon model?” But uber geekery aside, I noticed that quite a few topics that started on the idea board migrated over to the schedule board.

From my standpoint, the best sessions of the weekend were ‘Viral Marketing Q&A’ by Matt Peters of Pandemic Labs and ‘At The Intersection of Everything: Social, Virtual, Mobile, Semantic, WWWeb’ by Jay Neely of Social Strategist.

However, I found that all of sessions were interesting in their own right. And I have lots of notes, so I plan to write more very, very soon.

All in all, it was an incredible weekend. A huge thank you goes out to the people who took the time and effort to organize such a great event. I have a great number new smart, savvy hacker-friends with whom I hope to collaborate in the future.

Oh, and my business postcards were a hit.