The Conference For Short Nerds
I generally hate conferences and do my best to avoid them. However I find myself thoroughly enjoying Gnomedex 6 (which Amy refers to as the “conference for short nerds” (Chris – she might be talking about you)) for the second year in a row.
Chris Pirillo and his fiance Ponzi put on a high energy and very entertaining conference. It’s in what’s now becoming “classical unconference” format – rather than lots of presentations with commercial bents, people get up for 30 minutes and lead “conversations” of the audience of 400 or so people. Susan Mernit – now of Yahoo – just got up to talk about “sex and relationships” (instead of widgets and microformats.)
It’s been a romper room of interesting people so far today. Michael Arrington started… Read more


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