It turns out that Doc Searls’ plane got held up at Heathrow in London, so I’ve been drafted to take his place at the AlwaysOn conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday afternoon’s panel, Bloggers vs. Big Media Competition, from 3:45 to 4:45 pm PT. The webcast should be accessible through this page.
I’ll try to post updates throughout the day.
As for Wednesday evening: I just got back from Gordon Biersch in downtown Palo Alto, where a dozen of us shared beers with Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s former campaign manager. Joe’s one helluva nice guy.
I just ordered his new book, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. Please spread the word about it: Joe’s depending on viral word of mouth (and not using the 650,000-member Dean mailing list). Unlike the usual political post-mortem, Joe chronicles the rise of the grassroots democracy movement by tracing its origins to the open source movement and describing how it took off by using technologies that empowered people. Check it out.
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.
You were great today! Seeya on Thursday.