Sincerity and Fun- Lessons from #140conf Boston

If you read my last three posts about the 140 Characters Conference, you’ve seen my initial reactions and thank-you’s from the event. After a few days of simmering, It occurs to me that I learned more about specific people than I did about the real-time web. I’ll admit I spent more time tending to the panelists I’d invited than actually watching the programming, but that was out of necessity. I felt like I’d gotten them into this thing, I better make sure they had a good time (even though Jeff Pulver always makes his events fun). Here’s what I learned about the people I spent my time with:
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Video: Rock Stars in Real Time

Here’s the 1-frame-per-minute video stream (the wifi at the BBEC sucked) of the Music panel with me, Ariel, Ted, and Amanda. Hope you dig it!

Video courtesy of Steve Garfield


Music and the Real-Time Web

If you weren’t at the 140 Characters Conference in NYC, you probably missed our little chat about the real-time web and the modern music industry. Fortunately, the modern music industry has the real-time web so I can show you what we did!

I’m on the left, next to me is Syd Schwartz from EMI, then Ted Cohen from TAG Strategic, and finally Steve Greenberg from S-Curve Records.