I was standing in the back of the hall yesterday when former Senator John Edwards was speaking at Gnomedex and thinking back over the dozens of conferences and events I’ve attended over the past three years. From the big bucks “Demo” or “CES” to the very fun and little Reboot or IT@Cork.
What’s funny is that Gnomedex seems like a goofy, unimportant conference. After all, the logo of Chris’ face is on everything. And only 400 people can attend. And, it’s just an unimportant blogging conference anyway, right?
But, we have that little issue of every computer out and on.
That shows this audience is different than any other audience I’ve seen any conference build. It’s like being at a press conference at times.
Kudos to John Edwards for recognizing that there’s an interesting audience here. He got a free ride cause he was the first to come and visit. The next politician who comes to a conference like this will be treated much harsher, especially if he or she doesn’t stick around afterward.
Al Gore, someone commented to me out in the hall, stuck around the TED conference the entire conference. Little things like this are what get people to really become committed to a cause or a person.
That said, Edwards was funny and made us feel good without really saying that much. He’s going to go far.
Congrats to Chris and Ponzi for a wonderful event. The party in the Museum of Flight museum last night really shocked a lot of people. The group I walked in with had no idea how good this museum was, and then realized that Gnomedex had stepped up its game quite a bit too.
Lots of blogging and photos are on Technorati for the Gnomedex tag.
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Where, this is one time I agree with Winer. The ONLY reason Edwards was there was to get potential votes. He couldn’t give a crap about WHAT the conference was. Just that there were people to talk to in the hopes of getting potential votes. I ‘d be that he was heavily coached about what to expect. Left to his own devices he would have come off as more of a moron than he apparently did.
Where, this is one time I agree with Winer. The ONLY reason Edwards was there was to get potential votes. He couldn’t give a crap about WHAT the conference was. Just that there were people to talk to in the hopes of getting potential votes. I ‘d be that he was heavily coached about what to expect. Left to his own devices he would have come off as more of a moron than he apparently did.
Who is John Edwards? Oh yeah the LOSER from the last election. Why is it that loser-politicians want to hang out with tech people? Could it be they want to poison the pool with their lame ideas? Get people blogging about them.
Who is John Edwards? Oh yeah the LOSER from the last election. Why is it that loser-politicians want to hang out with tech people? Could it be they want to poison the pool with their lame ideas? Get people blogging about them.
Hate to be the jerk here. But this really shows a lack of focus on your part. Because many attendees don’t have their laptops up and running. Yes I would agree that a large majority do. This however shows that people tend to focus only on what they want to see. Especially considering the fact that I have been attending since 3.0 and never once had a notebook with me to turn on. Guess since I’m not in the upper echelon of uber elite geek I don’t count though.
Hate to be the jerk here. But this really shows a lack of focus on your part. Because many attendees don’t have their laptops up and running. Yes I would agree that a large majority do. This however shows that people tend to focus only on what they want to see. Especially considering the fact that I have been attending since 3.0 and never once had a notebook with me to turn on. Guess since I’m not in the upper echelon of uber elite geek I don’t count though.
Lots of Macs on display…
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Lots of Macs on display…
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Where, this is one time I agree with Winer. The ONLY reason Edwards was there was to get potential votes. He couldn’t give a crap about WHAT the conference was. Just that there were people to talk to in the hopes of getting potential votes. I ‘d be that he was heavily coached about what to expect. Left to his own devices he would have come off as more of a moron than he apparently did.
Here’s all we need to know about Edwards
http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/10/choice.html
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Where, this is one time I agree with Winer. The ONLY reason Edwards was there was to get potential votes. He couldn’t give a crap about WHAT the conference was. Just that there were people to talk to in the hopes of getting potential votes. I ‘d be that he was heavily coached about what to expect. Left to his own devices he would have come off as more of a moron than he apparently did.
Here’s all we need to know about Edwards
http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/10/choice.html
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Who is John Edwards? Oh yeah the LOSER from the last election. Why is it that loser-politicians want to hang out with tech people? Could it be they want to poison the pool with their lame ideas? Get people blogging about them.
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Who is John Edwards? Oh yeah the LOSER from the last election. Why is it that loser-politicians want to hang out with tech people? Could it be they want to poison the pool with their lame ideas? Get people blogging about them.
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Hate to be the jerk here. But this really shows a lack of focus on your part. Because many attendees don’t have their laptops up and running. Yes I would agree that a large majority do. This however shows that people tend to focus only on what they want to see. Especially considering the fact that I have been attending since 3.0 and never once had a notebook with me to turn on. Guess since I’m not in the upper echelon of uber elite geek I don’t count though.
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Hate to be the jerk here. But this really shows a lack of focus on your part. Because many attendees don’t have their laptops up and running. Yes I would agree that a large majority do. This however shows that people tend to focus only on what they want to see. Especially considering the fact that I have been attending since 3.0 and never once had a notebook with me to turn on. Guess since I’m not in the upper echelon of uber elite geek I don’t count though.
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