Registration is closed for the Microsoft World Wide Partner conference and they forgot to put the
SOLD OUT graphic on the site.
Paul is not attending the conference formerly known as Velocity for the first time in five years. I was the first blogger granted Press credentials into a Microsoft Press Room back at Toronto in '04 and again in Minneapolis in '05, Boston in '06 and last year in Denver.
Everyone is talking about Social Media today, but we had a vibrant Microsoft developer community of bloggers back in '04. Then the talk was about the
New Microsoft, the community, how they listened and
got it. Our blogging efforts were affirmed by the Developer Evangelist Team when they established Channel 9.
All has changed, changed utterly. Microsoft PR stopped trusting us and turned the
Partner conference,
TechEd and
Channel 9 into informericals that they can control.