I attended two conferences in NYC this week, Ad-Tech and The Future of Television.
At Ad-Tech I met Spammers and Pop-Up Ad Affiliates and too many people spending other peoples money foolishly. Most of the attendees seamed to be recent emigrants to the Internet, causing this native to wonder where have they been the last ten years? MySpace, Facebook and YouTube were companies they all read about as blogs were talked about, but RSS is still a mystery to them.
The Writers Strike was evident all over midtown Manhattan this week. When I walked by the picket lines they handed me a flyer - We're only asking for our fair share. On the back of the flyer were the names and phone numbers of billionaire Media bosses, but nowhere was there a URL. All these writers and not one blog, what's wrong with this picture?
The best quote from the Future of Television conference came from Shelly Palmer of the Emmy Awards, he said of the Writers strike that the DVD dispute was settled and now it was just the Internet.......