Here’s a new format already: A little midday roundup — not to be confused with a wrap-up, mind you — of things happening here at the conference.  I may add a few things here as the day rolls on — and perhaps someone with more 1337 skillz than I will take pity on me and send a little mobile-blogging advice my way. (Twitter is the extent of my skills there.)

Neither Lauren nor I made the opening address last night (Sunday), the James Carville, Mary matalin roadshow we’ve all come to know and love over the last 16 years.

So far today we’ve had a wash of keynotes — including Oracle’s own blog about the Charles Phillips keynote: http://snurl.com/oowblogphillips

And here’s Oracle’s blogpost regarding the fantastic cellist who preceded Phillips’ presentation: http://snurl.com/3spm7

Some other coverage out in the world:

I’m loving the fact that Australian and Kiwi bloggers get to date their posts 9/23 already: http://snurl.com/3stza

And of course, our much-adored Paul Greenberg: http://snurl.com/pgreenbe  [That's his first post -- of 6! -- from the morning's opening keynote. He's already up to #7, last time I looked.]

And some of my preferred Oracle sources of info:

• The Green Marketplace: http://snurl.com/oowgreen
• Press Releases: All the announcements made so far can be accessed here – http://snurl.com/ORCLpr
• Keynotes (including videos for any that have already happened – and Oracle’s being super-quick about having them up): http://snurl.com/ORCLkeyn
• Video Highlights – YouTube video highlights from the event are available here – http://www.youtube.com/oraclevideo
• Event Photos – Are being uploaded to Flickr and are available here – http://www.flickr.com/groups/762285@N25/
• Oracle folks (and some others) Twittering about the show: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+Tweeters – or do a Summize (uh…”Twitter Search”) scan here (#oow), here (#oow08), and here (#openworld08).
• And, as a kind of Venn diagram subset of that list, here are some of the wonderful Twitterers I’ve been tracking (and I don’t know all of them personally, so this isn’t a shameless plug): @eddieawad, @pgreenbe (of course), @ccarfi (whom I’m thrilled to have finally met in person), @oracleopenworld, @Mrgareth, @psalinger, @NishantK, @sfranklin1717, @oemperor, and @mfauscette (who seems to be getting one-on-one access to several top Oracle execs, including Anthony Lye and Juergen Rottler). [That's not a complete list, btw - not by a long shot.]
• Oracle Mix (Oracle’s social networking platform), where there’s often breaking news: https://mix.oracle.com/

Speaking of breaking news, the “story of the day” mantle goes to the folks who used Twitter to get rescued after they found themselves trapped in a hotel elevator: http://oracleappslab.com/2008/09/21/mix-to-the-rescue/

Also of interest -

• Oracle Participate, a user-friendly feedback spot for constructive criticism: http://www.oracle.com/participate.html & http://www.oracle.com/learnmore.html
• The new My Oracle Support offering: http://snurl.com/3sv4r “integrates Oracle’s award winning support portal, Oracle MetaLink…”