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So Mike Arrington announces some of the new advisors on the “panel of experts” for the TechCrunch20 conference that he and Jason Calacanis have started up as a kind of anti-DEMO conference. And the first thing that some people — like Ben Metcalfe and I, and Tony
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2 years ago
I corrected the mistakes - thanks for pointing them out :)
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When we're talking about YouTube - the technological component of which consists in FLV files and a server farm the size of a small town - it seems far more appropriate to have media people than tech people. I mean, what the crap do we know about advertising and music promotion or indie video? We write code and geek out with computers. A group of fourteen year-olds could club together and build their own YouTube clone in less than a month these days (and evidence suggests quite a number of them have - and then subsequently went on to found companies).
In an age of tech startups being basically media companies in disguise, MC Hammer is a far more appropriate choice for the conference board than a techie.
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As for your point about users, that's a fair point -- except that Mike and Jason are calling it an "experts panel." There's kind of a disconnect there I think.
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"The intermingling of Hammer and the blogosphere will be HOW future generations comsume their news. Period. End of story.
I learn stuff on Hammer's blog every day that is more profound than many of the twitter postings that I read."
;-)
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