Returned last night from a business trip to Boston, New York and Connecticut. It all went better than I had expected. Already mentioned my nice stay on Saturday at Tom Regan’s. Here’s the rest:
Sunday: Spent the morning at a service in the Boston area, interviewing a file-sharing minister. Took Amtrak to Newark, NJ, Sunday night while transcribing my notes on my Powerbook G4 and then tuning out the world with my iPod. What a priceless travel companion.
Monday: Drove from NJ to Connecticut Monday to re-interview a piracy expert for my book.
Tuesday: Drove to Hoboken, NJ, to meet up with Eric Nelson, the editor at Wiley & Sons who totally gets the issues framed in my book about the digital media wars. (Publication is still probably at least a year away.) Spotted actor Danny Aiello, a real Jersey guy, with his posse at a table in the corner of Tutta Pasta. Later headed into New York, met my literary agents at the Spieler Agency in person for the first time, then hung out with some friends. One friend — a co-owner of fubu, the hip urban clothing line — was meeting with Manny Jackson, the owner of the Harlem Globetrotters, when I poked my head into his office on the 66th floor of the Empire State Building. Tried to rendezvous with blogger Jay Rosen at NYU but missed connecting.
Also managed to fit in family stuff on three nights. Now, I’ve just got to catch up on the 500 emails clogging my in-box.
That, plus figure out why blogrolling.com is making my blog take 30 seconds to render on a cable modem.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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