I'm happy and exhausted. Howie Klein and Vicki Cosgrove and I are wrapping up the granting and disbursement phase of our program bringing bloggers and activists to Yearlykos Chicago. 17 grantees are going to Chicago and adding the wealth of their experience, their insights and their point of view to the world's largest gathering of bloggers and online activists. I wish I could wax eloquent right now but I'm too exhausted to do much but offer this reflection. We did a small, good thing. In doing so we took any number of small good things and added them together. A $25 donation, an offer of frequent flier miles, a donated Yearlykos registration, a local blograiser, a willingness to share a ride, or offer up a room, the courage to put up a blog post asking for a helping hand. I don't know what the experience of Ykos Chicago holds for us, but I do know it will be a different convention because of the sum of what we have done. The hard part is over. The interesting part has