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New laptop trend threatens public speakers
January 19, 2006
A good example of the new trend of going along to a presentation and then spending your time playing with your laptop instead of listening to the speaker. Very much like going to a U2 concert and then listening to your iPod while the Edge is soaring through With or Without You. Sacrilege, no?
This is from the GPL v3 launch in Cambridge, Massachusetts at MIT. You can read all about it if you missed this important event (important in the open source world, at any rate) by reading Simon Phipps' blog here. You might want to read the notes even if you did attend, since it's clear you weren't listening.
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Looks to me like the attendees are blogging the conference. So they're multi-taking and providing a useful service to those unable to attend. It only becomes disruptive if the conference includes an IRC back channel where the conversation on IRC is more interesting than the speaker.
Then there are those occasions where IRC becomes the topic du jour - like when Mena Trott called out Ben Metcalfe at Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris. As a European, I found it ironic. Sadly lost on a number of the US attendees. Ho hum.
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