Hey Bostonians (and those who plan to plug in remotely via the CoverItLive feed), just a reminder that the mobile panel featuring LocaModa’s CEO Stephen Randall will kick-off at 8:15 tomorrow in Metcalf Hall @ Boston University.

Here’s the full scoop:

Make Your Message Mobile

Moderator: Allison Mooney, Senior Director of Trends & Research, Fleishman-Hillard

Can’t make it? Be sure to check Twitter for attendee tweets using the #ymme hashtag… including Stephen’s!

Hopefully the rain will taper off around here and we can get the campus to look like this tomorrow! (Although I admit that bathing suit weather is a bit of a stretch in November… even considering New England volatility.)

Because we have a 1:1 ratio of iPhones to employees in the LocaModa office, most conference calls involve a cacophony of static and beeps when the devices belly up to the table with the Polycom speaker phone.

Clearly, iPhones don’t like to sit next to other phones; it makes them jittery.

Yesterday, thanks to a Steve Woodruff tweet, I learned a neat trick: Place your iPhone on top of a piece of tinfoil, and it eliminates all interference!

It actually works!

As an alternate solution, I suppose we could all tuck our phones underneath our tin foil helmets like in Signs…

(By the way, check out this fascinating study on the efficacy of tin foil helmets from a few good folks at the MIT Media Lab. I also must credit them with this terrific image below.)

A look at the Ecast booth live from the floor of AMOA… Check out Wiffiti on the EQ device!

Here’s a quick Twitter screengrab I took right after the McCain announcement this morning (they were coming in hundreds per minute on my feed):

Clearly the Palin pick is off-the-charts in terms of tweet potential.

Want to put those tweets in context? Take a peek at Loca’s new PoliChat app! (pic in post below)

And if you’ll be at the RNC this weekend, make sure to look for Wiffiti at the Outburst Forum!

You’ll pull up tweet after tweet after tweet…
About Sarah Palin.
(Hey, figured I’d put a Mahalo link in there to kowtow to Jason Calacanis while I’m at it.)

This sure makes things iiiinteresting…

Shoot your Wiffiti thoughts to our new PoliChat app here in the office! Just click on the link to pull up the screen in your browser and participate remotely.

It’s live on the loca site as well!

Check out this tweet that I noticed pop up during the Netroots Nation Convention.  It’s one big metamouthful of social platform leaders…

In other news, I’m off to check out more Wiffiti and Lawrence Lessig’s lunchtime keynote.

I’ll be headed to Austin next week for the third annual Netroots Nation Convention (formerly YearlyKos), where LocaModa will be powering Wiffiti!

I attended last year in Chicago and had a fantastic time, so I’m psyched to see what this year has in store.  Caucuses, mixers, blogger sessions– it’s always a very FULL long weekend.  Howard Dean will be giving the opening keynote on Thursday night, as he did last year… and he’s guaranteed to get everyone riled up and rearin’ to go.

Of course, I’ll be blogging and twittering from the event.  If you’ll be there, be sure to drop me a line or tweet me a tweet (@jayniek).  And if anyone has any suggestions for things I need to check out while I’m there, please help out an Austin newbie!

Here’s a glimpse of last year’s event (HELLO Progressive Bloggers!!)

And, for those of you who won’t be joining me in the trek to Austin, I highly recommend hitting up PodCamp in Boston– I’d be there if I wasn’t going to be here!