Gnomedex 6.0

Tomorrow I’m headed to Seattle for Gnomedex. (My plane lands at 2:30 pm. If you have a car and would like to share a ride, get in touch.)

Gnomedex is a great tech gathering: last year it legitimized podcasting. I’m not going for the tech; I’m attending because this is a great conference. I wrote it up in my book as an unconference, the way things ought to be.

A teaser: “This year, there will be no speakers at Gnomedex. There will be no panels, either. We realize this is a radical departure from the norm, but there’s a method to our madness. We’ve begun to invite a select group of people to be discussion leaders - individuals who will stand on stage, present an idea or two, answer questions, and then generally lead the audience’s discussion and participation. We will continue to reveal them, one by one, over the course of the next few weeks. You must understand this, however: at Gnomedex, the audience always holds the stage. Some might call this an ‘unconference’ approach; we just call it ‘common sense.’”