It appears I’m being let out of the office for a few days to go and chat and learn from
real life people, rather than online…
It’ll make a nice change, and I’m actually really looking forward to it. I love RSS, blogs, tech sites and the like, but it’s always good to meet people face-to-face and be able to put questions direct to them and occasionally have a chance encounter with someone who could turn out to be good to know in the future…
It’s the Internet World conference, on May 1-3 at Earls court, and one of the main attractions for me is it’s free! So often, trying to access knowledge at conferences costs a large amount of money, and usually ends up leaving people feel cheated if there’s even a tiny portion that they already knew or could have guessed. If nothing else, charging people large amounts for knowledge goes against every one of the net principles that I appreciate… I still remember someone charging to let me listen to them talk about Open Source…
