I caught a rant by David Duchovny’s character on Californication last night that was worth pondering – especially by those of us who blog and tweet:
People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English.
During the initial webcast from Canada 3.0, a tweet asked the question about why everyone felt the need to be in Stratford, considering the discussion was about a digital strategy. A response was that you can’t meet people from your desk.
Random encounters, opportunities for meaningful encounters with serious (and not so serious) people, are among the reasons to climb from behind the keyboard and LCD and interact with the non-virtual world, face-to-face – no thumbs required. No event compares to The 2010 Canadian Telecom Summit in providing a three-day schmooze fest, with formal discussions led by the top influencers on Canada’s ICT industries, on top of incomparable networking opportunities.
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