After a particularly crummy of upright, intermittent sleeping on a crowded flight from Newark to Madrid, the day took a decided turn for the better when I went for a long walk with Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. We’re here for the Internet portion of a conference on democracy and terrorism. It starts tomorrow, in closed session, and then moves to open session session on Wednesday.

What we saw of Madrid was beautiful. And it was a perfect day — maybe 50F and not a cloud all day. We walked, we had lunch (a delicious veggie paella for me at a small cafe), we sat, we walked, we had coffee, we walked, Ethan went to eat ham at one of the Museo de Jambon’s, we walked.

Joi Ito, one of the organizers of the Internet portion of the conference, has set up a backchannel IRC, open to anyone who wants to eavesdrop: #madridopendemo on irc.freenode.net. See you there. [Technorati tags: safedemocracy madrid]

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