Temptation from our sponsors...
Temptation from our sponsors...
(Guy in row in front of us during french politicians speech, more on ami’s flickr)
Theres a lot of negativity around le web today, the conference room is half empty and people seem more than a little disgruntled. The problems
a) Poor panel moderation, not pushing panelists to do anything more than pimp their companies
b) Hijacking of the event by politicians, mainly french presidential candidates but also Shimon Peres. Considering that Loic was most proud that 51% of the attendees were not french, today everything has been shifted around several times to accomodate speechs by politicians. These have no relevance to a large portion of the audience.
c) stupid vague titles for the panels, no-one seems to know what they are talking about and we waste too much time defining terms and related semantics.
A nice summary of all the negativity is here
The really annoying thing is that none of these people have any interest in the attendees or the event. They are presenting for the camera crews standing two feet in front of them, and not the atendees sitting 20 feet behind (a large number of whom have left). We are renting them our stage space and time to further their own agenda.
