One Location, Camping Out

These decisions have a tendency to change. I was planning on doing one, then two, then most three events during Social Media Week in February, I ended up doing seven. But for now my decision for Internet Week is to camp out in one location and do as many events as possible in that one location, and to spend more time in the hallways wildly shaking hands than sitting obediently in halls as panelists pontificate.

Monday is my oh so important immigration court date, and that takes priority, and since my hearing is scheduled for 1 PM, and I am meeting my lawyer at 11 to prepare, and court hearings have a tendency to start late and drag on, I have no Internet Week plans until 3 PM Monday, and I am at peace with not even showing up until 4 PM, maybe 5 PM: no soup for you. But once I am done with the court stuff, which might be in the late afternoon, I hope to drop by and inaugurate my Internet Week. I am seeking refugee status, kind of like Einstein.

My Plan For Internet Week
The Internet Week: The Thing To Do
The Internet Week Is Mumbojumbo

Monday, June 06, 2011

Rallying to Restore Sanity in the Digital Age
03:00 PM — 03:45 PM AOL Stage

Yahoo! Presents – The Thread
03:00 PM — 03:30 PM Internet Week HQ

Will Tweet for Food: Writing Your Own Ticket in the Digital Age
03:00 PM — 03:50 PM HQ Classroom

The Onion’s Team of Three
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM AOL Stage

Yahoo! Finance Presents: Cross-fire: The Daily Ticker and Breakout!
04:00 PM — 05:00 PM Internet Week HQ

How to Survive Internet Week: Using Social Media to Make Offline Connections
04:00 PM — 04:45 PM HQ Classroom

Idiots From The Future

Here's a quote from an idiotic article in The Boston Globe. If they had called it comedy, I might have let them go. But this dude is peddling the piece as punditry.

The Boston Globe: Bubble? What bubble? Things are great. Unless ...: November 2011: Y Combinator, a “finishing school’’ for promising start-ups in Silicon Valley, announces a partnership with Wendy’s. Every Wendy’s restaurant will designate two booths near the bathrooms for tech start-ups. Y Combinator will supply $30,000 to each start-up, with Wendy’s providing unlimited baked potatoes and Frosties, in exchange for a 5 percent equity stake. ....... At the end of the program, Nigerian investor Dr. Hassan Dagogo promises (via a polite-but-urgent e-mail) to support each start-up with a follow-on investment of $500,000, wired directly to their bank accounts. Things go awry, and most entrepreneurs in the program end up living in Wendy’s parking lots.

Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap: Title Song: Dur

(Via Amitabh Bachchan)