Loren Feldman alone is worth the price of the ticket.
I wish I had $759. Then I could do two things:
1) Pay $200 to go to The Nation event about what will become of the news media (hint: what will become of it is that we will need to all pay $200 to keep it going).
"Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, Walter Mosley, Dan Rather, Jane Mayer and Marcy Wheeler are helping to ensure The Nation's future."
Like The New Yorker and The Economist, I buy the Nation on a case-by-case basis. And like a lot of freeloaders on the Internet, I read the emails and the articles on the website for free. So now I'm supposed to make up for that with a $200 event, but it's just beyond me. There needs to be a way of leaving $5 really easily in a tip jar by first buying a monthly wallet of $50 that I spend on my blog and mainstream media reading. Why doesn't somebody invent that.
2) Pay $559 for the early-bird ticket within the next 1d 12h 52m to go to The Audience which is a high-powered new-media event you find out about by being a Facebook friend of @1938Media, one of the most witty and insightful dudes scorning social media you will find on...social media lol. (Hint: and the way they pay for all the freeness on social media is by $659 events like this one LOL).
That's news media on the first one, and new media on the second one, see, they dropped the "s," it was taking up too much space on Twitter. Maybe it's become new media only seems to have one piece of news on it so far, which is "Hello, we are new media and boy are we cool".
Even at the regular price, and even with the $99 VIP party additional cost, The Audience is a bargain as these sorts of Silicon Valley tent revival meetings go, they can fetch $1500 or even $5000.
As it is, I will likely have to be content to follow the tweets out of these events or read about it afterwards on gawker.com or something.
I'm glad Loren Feldman has one woman so far who is going to speak on..."Being a woman in new media". Well, it's a truthful picture. If you discount Kathy Sierra who went into seclusion after being harrassed by the malicious blogosphere, and Sarah Lacy, who is like an honorary male on TechCrunch, well who is there?
Comments