ONA09: “What if I’m not going?”

The Online News Association’s 2009 conference is about to kick off. … And it’s already taken over my Twitter feed.

Not going to this year’s conference?

No worries. You can catch free livestreams of the conference’s keynote speakers:

• Twitter CEO Evan Williams – Friday, 9 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. Central
• Technology journalist Leo Laporte – Friday, 1 p.m. PDT/3 p.m. Central
• BlogHer CEO Lisa Stone – Saturday, 9 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. Central

This will be my second time seeing Evan Williams speak. About a hundred folks were lucky enough to hear his thoughts when he spoke at UNL’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications last April.

Want even more ONA09 goodness?

Also free for ONA members: [Livestreams of] 16 of the 18 sessions from The Front End and The Back End tracks on Friday and Saturday on Journalists.org.

Access to both tracks will be available for non-members to purchase for $25 each day. (Not a member? Join now.)

All in all, I have high hopes for this conference. (Just take a peek at the schedule.) I’ll be tweeting throughout, and you can follow the #ONA09 hashtag for thoughts from the rest of the crowd.