WisCon

I'm back from WisCon. Something I found striking -- in previous years, I swear when I'd spot someone with an LJ badge or sticker, I'd nearly always recognize the name. I might not have interacted with them a great deal, but I'd have spotted their name somewhere or other, commenting on a post by some mutual friend. This year, maybe one LJ name in ten looked even vaguely familiar. The others were complete virtual strangers to me. The people who did NOT have an LJ name -- either on a fancy sticker complete with their default icon, or handwritten on their badge -- were weirdly apologetic about it (one woman told me "I'm nobody" when she saw me peering at her badge to see if she'd written any secret identities on it).

Full con report (or reasonable facsimile thereof) under the cut.

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