“How to Write for the Internet,” with David Gerrold, Phil Osborn, Buzz Dixon and me, may have be the first 10 a.m. panel in the history of Loscon to play to a standing room only crowd.

Of course, there was a reason for that. Thanks to a miscommunication about a room change, the participants in a karate demo got there ahead of us and stacked all the chairs out of the way so they’d have space to maneuver. Once they were shown to the right room the first thing we panelists got to do was put the chairs back where they belonged…