At Times Open on Friday, I was chatting with the guy who runs the unofficial CNN Breaking News feed on Twitter. I recorded the interview on my BlackBerry, so the video would be automatically uploaded to Qik, and on a Flip camera, so I’d have a higher-quality copy for editing later. Another attendee, understandably finding some humor in this scene, snapped the above photo on his iPhone and uploaded it to Flickr. I was also caught contemplating my MacBook Air and tweeting. This is what happens at tech conferences.

Last year, Gay Talese told New York magazine that he had never visited the website of his former newspaper, The New York Times. “Never, and I never will.” This, despite the fact that he was working on a documentary with fellow Times veteran Arthur Gelb “about the paper’s struggles in the digital age,” according to New York. “I don’t deal with the technology,” Talese said, clearly with a whiff of disdain. “I don’t even know how to go into the Web. Maybe Gelb will do it. I insist on being with the people I’m writing about.”

Today, fresh off a Polk Award for lifetime achievement, Talese wrote a blog post for the Times website.