Leaving on a jet plane for SPJ, with Twitter

Hey everyone. In just a few hours I leave for Atlanta for this year's national SPJ convention.
I hope you all are joining us for what will be an essential reminder of our code of ethics, inspiration in trying times and a time to embrace being a journalist.
If you can, and even if you cannot, make this year's convention you should follow the news and views on Twitter.
If you are scratching your head, let me explain:
Twitter is a micro-blogging site based on the question "What are you doing?" Before you ask, no most people do not simply write all day about what they are eating and other silly nonsense. The site is used to share information, inspiration and insight in the online world community.
To get started, click here and create an account. Fill in your e-mail address (required, but not visible to others) and your phone number (not required, no one sees it, this allows you to "tweet" and read "tweets" on your mobile phone -- any mobile phone that has text messaging).
Here's my account and here is the official SPJ08 Twitter account. To get updates from either, click follow. Then, when you want to "tweet" about something about the convention -- include "#spj08" (without quote marks) in your message and it will automatically be included in with all of the other SPJ tweets.
Have fun, see you soon and happy tweeting!