On Aug. 4-6 some 28,000 people descended onto Indianapolis for the annual Gen Con convention. I was assigned to write up lite profiles of the gamer event. Factoring the hip, tech-savvy crowd was probably using social-media network Twitter to communicate, I tapped into that thread.
A pic I took of #gencon foam-pool noodle battle garnered over 200 clicks to Twit-pic.
Gen Con provided the first of jolt of the day not inside the Indiana Convention Center, but at a coffeehouse on Monument Circle. Au Bon Pain actually ran out of coffee early this morning, and gamers also formed long lines at nearby Dunkin' Donuts and at the java station inside Borders in Downtown. Guests and exhibitors are using the keyword #GenCon as a unified way to communicate via the social media website.
