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.

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