Every so often I check back in on “my baby” EndurancePlanet.com, the podcast I sold a few months ago, and I have to say the new owners are doing a fabulous job. Their passion and deep involvement in endurance sports shines through in each episode and I dare say, the show is much better [...]

I’m going to expand this blog a bit to things I find interesting online – but that still have some relation to the events, tradeshow and new media space. Here is my first such post.
Two days ago I went on to Orbitz.com to search for flights from Orange County, CA (John Wayne Airport) to [...]

My brother Emile sent me an instant message this morning. He spotted a post on Valleywag that caught his attention and in light of my recent post about unconferences, thought I’d be interested as well.
Seems Red Herring is producing a conference where the speakers are charged $2,500 for the privilege of presenting – same [...]

There is something that nobody is saying, that needs to be said, so I’m going to say it. Lately, it seems that unconferences are looking more like regular conferences and it’s starting to bug me.
For those of you who may not know, “unconferences” (as I understand them – feel free to correct me in [...]

Dan Rayburn has posted about his frustrations with speakers that get bent out of shape when they are not chosen to speak. I feel his pain.
Our deadline for speaker submissions is this Friday and we’ve already received about 650 requests for 85 spots. I’m not looking forward to telling those who are not [...]

I’ve received a small amount of flack from a few folks for the way we did the pricing on the conference for Podcast and New Media Expo this year. First, a little background. Our conference has always been a loss-leader for us. We provide excellent speakers and content to draw the audience [...]