In a move that you can’t help but admire, and that ranks up there with the best counter-programming moves the television networks can muster, our colleagues at that other conference (warning: insano-site), after having their life as a PDF folly pointed out to them (note: they’ve reinvented their website as a gigantic, equally non-functional Flash application), have added Dave Winer, UserLand Founder, RSS pioneer, and Berkman Fellow, as a keynote speaker.
It’s nice that Dave will get a chance to see the Island, and good that the sizzling mediaheads attending nextMedia will get exposed to his message. We’ve invited him to come up and Zap His PRAM after he’s done with nextMedia, and I think there’s a plan afront to get an informal blogger dinner or lunch up and running in Charlottetown regardless.
While I continue to think that a smaller scale, more modest and sustainable approach to technology and development (and conferences) is the sane way to proceed, I can’t help taking some perverse joy in the fact that Prince Edward Island is home to two technology conferences in one week.
What are they paying to ship these guys in?
POSTED OCT 15, 2003 AT 18:22 AST BY Alan
Actually, I kind of like their flash site. Also, lime green.
POSTED OCT 16, 2003 AT 10:06 AST BY LANA
From what I can tell, they have had Dave Winer booked since before your post on Sept. the 12th.
POSTED OCT 16, 2003 AT 17:40 AST BY JEVONOops, hit Tab-Shift and accidentally submitted.
Meant to say; doesn't seem like counter programming.
POSTED OCT 16, 2003 AT 17:42 AST BY JEVON
I still don't know what either conference is 'about' but I'll go where I think I'll feel more informed or at least more comfortable in my oblivion :-)
POSTED OCT 18, 2003 AT 08:48 AST BY Kevin
