E&P Vegas 2006: Interactivity, Anyone?
Note to the organizers: If this is the INTERACTIVE Media conference, provide INTERACTIVE ability: meaning, like, an INTERNET connection, so those of us who want to tell other people about it can INTERACT with our audiences. We have reason to believe the organizers are worried everyone will spend all their time on their laptops instead of paying attention. Well, pardon, but if the panels are really interesting people will pay attention. And, besides, we don’t need laptops to not pay attention. We can check our Blackberries or read the papers that the people in this room help produce. The mentality of keeping us off our laptops so we’ll pay attention — rather than making the “content” so gripping that we HAVE to pay attention — maybe tolls something a death knell for the industry that plays into the kind of inability to deal with disruptive technologies that Scott Anthony referred to in his panel — more on that later.
People who were at the Syndicate conference in New York earlier this week pointed out how having folks who were on their laptops — blogging and conversing online — made it richer, stronger and more interesting. People who were online critiqued what was going on, live, and those talking responded, live.
Uber-designer Roger Black told us he had to connect through Bluetooth to get a computer connection and like others of us, when his couldn’t get his computer working, he just used his handlheld — that’s a picture of our CEO, Laurel, checking her handheld, appropriately enough during the discussion on media for handhelds.
Because, organizers, if you’re still reading, it’s after 6 p.m. in New York on Friday by the time we, at the airport, can get this on the site.
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