There is less than two weeks until Perth’s second ever web conference; Edge of the Web 2009 gets underway, and the excitement is building!

One large element of the social aspects of web conferences is the ‘twitter back channel’, you know; the thoughts and musings of people who are attending the conference posted on Twitter.

With this in mind, I thought it worthwhile to go through the impressive speakers list, and link those who are on Twitter so you can also watch what the speakers are saying, before, during and after the crazy week we have planned.

Derek Powazek @fraying
Anil Dash @anildash
Alex Payne @al3x
Dmitry Baranovskiy @DmitryBaranovsk
Gary Barber @Tuna
Ruth Ellison @RuthEllison
Lachlan Hardy @lachlanhardy
Simon Pascal Klein @klepas
Kevin Yank @sentience
Miles Burke @milesb
Ash Donaldson @ashdonaldson
Matt Balara @MattBalara
Matt Didcoe @mattman
Scott Gledhill @gleddy
Nick Cowie @nickobec
Myles Eftos @madpilot
James McCutcheon @jamesmcc
Justin Mclean @JustinMclean
Darcy Laycock @Sutto

Remember, if you are attending Edge of the Web 2009, you should use #eotw09 as the hashtag. It’d probably be a good idea to also follow the @eotw Twitter account too!

It turns out that the Buddha has become popular on Twitter. What started as a test for the Twitter API, just over six months ago, has resulted in twice a day tweets from quotes from The Buddha, being delivered to 634 followers (currently).

Want some uplifting sayings every twelve hours? Join Twitter (if you haven’t already) and follow @thebuddha. Most of the sayings aren’t religious in nature, they are merely positive thoughts and common sense. Thanks for following.

You can see the more than 380 sayings that have already been tweeted, by using the ‘Older’ and ‘Newer’ buttons on the lower part of this page. You can even grab the RSS feed for your own remixing or re-tweeting.

Want to spread the Dhamma? I need volunteers to collate writings and quotes from the Buddha, and create lists of 140 character sayings to tweet. Please get in touch using the comments below!