In this edition of the "Catching up with Krug" report, we get the quick recap on KK's participation at ICE 08 in Toronto, Ontario (note to Americans, Toronto is still not the capitol of Canada).

{Pardon the digression} from American Bacon:

[the Mountie explains that Honey has been taken to the capital]
Boomer: The capital Toronto.
RCMP Officer at Headquarters: No, the capital of Canada is Ottawa.
Boomer: Yeah, right. Do we look that stupid? Ottawa!
Roy Boy: Nice try, Dudley.

Whist there, Kris spoke on a panel - moderated by Eli Singer from Segal Communications - with Amber Macarthur, and Mark Relph, about leveraging the power of social networks. Here's a live blog from the session "Community Watch: Leveraging the Power of Networks" for your interest.

My Day 2 report finds us at the first day of the Raincity Booth (211 and 213 opposite O'Reilly, come on down and say hi). The Darth Vader Raincity Shirts are popular, we're meeting both old and new friends like Shira Lazar, Joey deVilla aka "Accordion Guy", Alex Williams, the folks from Kyte and (perhaps) surprisingly lots of SXSW Interactive folks don't know about Drupal and the fact that out the box it's great for building social media and online community websites as well as platform to write web applications on top off.

Check out the video after the jump.