Day 2 of Defrag is starting and if it comes close to the experience yesterday it should be an awesome day.

Brad has a post up on his (Feld) thoughts on how Day 1 went. Jeff Nolan has an awesome Twitter stream going or at least he did yesterday.

The one thing I haven’t seen is a commentary on the quality of the crowd. There’s only about 250 people here but suffice to say that if lunch is a bit dodgy and the potato salad happens to take everyone down, this industry would take a major hit.

I’m going to miss someone important, but the people who built what the internet is today and those who are building what the internet will be tomorrow are all here. The thought leaders, the VCs who funded the crazies, — all here.

The huge plus is that you can’t grab coffee (I grab a lot) without bumping into someone important and interesting. For example, Ilya and I had a chance to chat casually with Esther Dyson while milling around the breakfast buffet this morning.

Many kudos to Eric Norlin for pulling this thing off.

UPDATE: the Closed Private announcement has resulted in Kevin Marks of Google showing up to talk Open Social today.