For the few people who expressed some curiosity about the YouTube meet up in San Francisco, there are now any number of videos on YouTube chronicling the same people milling around on Pier39.
The organizer's video is posted here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvoy_owET8 And beneath that, in "comments and responses", over seventy response videos. Personally, I can recomment PimplyWimp's. If only because he's "in character" and mesing with people just a little. Whether or not he set out to send up the event, it's an amusing - and awkward - counter point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai3hPQ0Xs4 My own response video lives here. In which I fail to do much "interacting" with other people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEiATJFBWO0 Meandering off on a tangent, Kevin Nalty from WillVideoForFood.com posted a video about a similar event in New York (and, perhaps, mildly sending up the original event....) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGSRvexvFw So (for anyone still reading....) there's a YouTube meet-up planned in NYC for 7/7/7 Not a lot of details on it at the moment, although I will mention that it's not organized by the same people who organized the SF event. I'll pass on more details as they emerge, although it's a straight-up "meet up". And sadly, I won't be going... Mark Day, watching YouTube so you don't have to.... http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://www.youtube.com/markdayresponse http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://markdaycomedy.wordpress.com http://www.myspace.com/markday etc. etc. etc.
