The difficulty of choices of which events to attend continues on Wednesday at America’s Future Now. First, I should note that the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference is taking place at the same time, and I would love to be over at that. In addition, it is Internet Week in New York City, and I’d like to catch some of that.

Here at the conference, I stopped off to get coffee, and ended up getting into a great discussion with Joe Brewer of Cognitive Policy Works. As we were talking, Marcia West of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition handed me a leaflet encouraging me to come hear her talk about “HR 1479: The Battle for Lending the Safe and Protected Way”. I would have liked to have gone, but instead I went to Collaborating on Ideas for the Long-Term led by Barry Kendall of Commonweal Institute and the Progressive Ideas Network.

The most interesting part was a brainstorming session where people tossed out progressive headlines they would like to see in ten years that are not imaginable today. There were many great ideas tossed out.

Now, Senator Sherrod Brown is speaking, and I’m looking at the schedule afterwards. He announced that he is now on Twitter, (@sensherrodbrown.) and that he had yogurt and Grapenuts for breakfast.

Judith Freeman, co-founder and Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute will be part of a session, New Media Organizing: Using Cutting-Edge Online Advocacy and Technology Techniques. It will probably be a great session. At 10:20, Matthew Yglesias will be part of a Parallel Plenary on Global Warming: The Challenge for the Next Generation . Karl Frisch and Jane Hamsher will be in the Parallel Plenary, New Media: The Politics of the Changing Media Scene and Robert Borosage, my congresswoman, Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Stan Greenberg will be in the Parallel Plenary, Manufacturing America: Common Sense About Global Economic Strategy. More hard choices about which session to go to.

As much as these are going to be great sessions, I’m also looking forward to the 3:02 PM session, a train from Washington DC to New Haven, CT.