“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can ever take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
—Benjamin Franklin

In commemoration of their 10th year, the Webby Awards has created their list of the 10 web moments that changed the world.

With a tip of the hat and a thank you to Steve Hall, I’m attending ad:tech New York, and blogged about a day three session on the ad:tech official blog over here.

Some random Larry King-style observations about Day Three: Closing day blues have set in. Other conferences have taken over the hotel that ad:tech has dominated for the last two days. The exhibit hall is closed. A huge percentage of attendees have left. We feel like squatters; time to leave and get back to work … Still, ad:tech NY has to be considered a success: At 8,300 attendees, it was the largest interactive conference ever.

With a tip of the hat and a thank you to Steve Hall, I’m attending ad:tech New York, and blogged about day two sessions on the ad:tech official blog here and here.

Some random Larry King-style observations about Day Two: I lost count of how many times Cindy Gallop used the word “consumer” in the keynote. I sorta wish she’d used “customer” instead. Seems someone wearing alligator-skin-print pants would be likely to draw that important distinction … Every hotel in America, I think, smells about the same at 8 a.m., a familiar mix of aromas from the breakfast buffet: scrambled eggs, bacon, and home fries … James Surowiecki also delivered a keynote this morning, and he was excellent. Sure, it amounted to a plug for his book, The Wisdom of Crowds, but it sounds like a great book … Evidently, each keynote speaker had to fill out a brief questionairre to help make their introductions a bit more personal. Reporting on their favorite condiments, though, makes them a bit more stupid … People who don’t know how to set their cell phones on silent or vibrate before entering a session shouldn’t be allowed to own cell phones. Or attend sessions. Or maybe both … The exhibit hall was virtually packed up, if not shipped out, by the time Guy Kawasaki’s afternoon keynote was through. No flies on this bunch.

With a tip of the hat and a thank you to Steve Hall, I’m attending ad:tech New York, and blogged about day one sessions on the ad:tech official blog here and here.

Some random Larry King-style observations about Day One: Conference chairwoman Susan Bratton wore a pair of wings as she delivered her opening comments. For a moment, I thought I’d been magically transported to Second Life! … With all the talk about this party and that party, it sorta feels like Spring Break for marketers around here … “Your ride sponsored by Bluestreak” was the sign I saw next to an out-of-order escalator (I trust Bluestreak has better uptime) … In this morning’s keynote, Hard Rock CMO Sean Dee dislayed a photo of The Who in performance that, he explained, was a visual representations of their positioning statement. I like that notion a lot (what’s the visual representation of your mission statement?) … Jim Sterne gave a hell of a presentation, entertaining and funny and he drove home something that can never be overstated about the online experience: Think about it from the customers’ perspective! … Navigating the corridors of the exhibit hall is worse than riding the Interboro Parkway at rush hour … Lexus VP of Marketing Deborah Wahl-Meyer gave a nice keynote, but I couldn’t help thinking that it was less a marketing presentation and more a pitch for the Lexus IS to an audience that’s by and large in the Lexus target.