Loic sums up feedback on Le Web 3

I can’t believe some of the nonsense and whining I’m reading on the blogs about the event. Like this politicians thing. Like someone said, if you had had George Bush or Condi Rice or John Kerry on some such convention in the US, or say Gordon Brown or Jack Straw or Margaret Beckett in the UK, everyone would go apeshit. But in France, it’s a problem, just because it’s not your country?

And not being able to close your laptops for the time that someone with the relevance of Shimon Peres talks? Do you really think that you and your blog is so important that if you write things on it 30 minutes later, the world will miss something important? I think of it as having a distorted perception of reality and never having worked in a business setting where it’s customary to not look at your laptop when you’re engaged in a meeting, unless you’re the one giving a talk. (Some of my colleagues do that anyway. But none of those who I truly respect.)

You see, such nonsense is why even though I have a blog, I never refer to myself as a “blogger” and don’t like being called one. A “blogger” to me is someone immersing in exactly this kind of whining and throwing it at each other. As if it mattered. No it doesn’t, you just make yourself look silly, that’s all. (And I’m doing it myself here, too, but I’m whining about whining, not the conference organizers who were the guys doing the ACTUAL work so that everyone else could come.)

Thanks again Loic. It was a truly good show. I’m not sure if I’ll attend next year though for various reasons, but it doesn’t decrease the value of this one. I’m looking forward to you and the vpod.tv guys putting the presentation videos online so that I could go over some of them again.