I'm currently at the airport in Las Vegas, awaiting a flight that starts boarding in 45 minutes or so. I figured I would take the time to write this now, because if I don't then I'll just say "forget it" like I always do, and then literally forget everything.
While I was in Las Vegas this weekend, I visited Blog World Expo. I don't even really know what Blog World Expo is. I mean, I know what it's supposed to be, but I'm not really convinced that it is what it purports.
I wouldn't be so bold as to say that social media is an illusion. That's very much not true, but I do think that people are prospecting in this space, not really knowing how to organize the people who are involved. Largely, they're preaching to the choir, or they're so paradoxically self-involved that they can't even see the "social" aspect of the industry that they're trying to form....
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Starting in September, which is right around the corner in case you hadn't noticed, there is a series of conferences that have entered my radar as something that might be edifying for me to attend. There may just be too many of them.
Podcamp Philly is the first of these, on September 6th and 7th. Like each of these conferences, this one has a theme. Being that this is a podcamp, the topic is "new media". I've been following the PANMA list for a year and a half and I'm still not sure what anyone really means when they say "new media", but I think it has something to do with blogging and podcasting and stuff like that.
Later in September (20-21) is Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. I'm waiting to hear more glowing reviews of this event from last year's attendees. This is a pretty expensive conference for blogging, and I wonder who the target market really is: bloggers or blog integrators. I think it's the latter, which it might be nice to pitch Habari at, but I'd like to get real users, not SEO people and themers. Maybe that's just me. Still, it would be nice to hobnob with the big players....
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