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1. 1 On January 23rd, 2024, Kombinat! said:

   I would love to be at one of those conferences. I am White, Male, English speaking. I think I qualify.

   Aside from that the mp3 of Weinberger speech is excellent. I listened to it after I was listening to the webcast and IRC speech. On IRC I mentioned that they didn’t speak at the conference about blogging vs. journalism as looking as a distinction of abundance vs. scarcity. Weinberger mentioned it in his speech on friday night but I don’t think it was ever mentioned on Saturday. Listen to his remarks on ‘economy of abundance’ and I love that he called Dewey a ‘young 23 year old punk who decided to classify ALL the knowledge’.

2. 2 On January 24th, 2024, Dean Landsman said:

   The idea, it would seem, is to hang your shingle as a blogging/bioinformatics-ethicist consultant. Next: trade links and hugely deep sentences with a cadre of A-listers. Following that, issue press releases that contain [mostly] blog posts, making certain to send same to A-Minus list bloggers — those known more for linkage (and suck-up-itude) than content, yet always given the occasional mercy-cred/prop by the more official A-listers.

   ∙ Declare a conference.

   ∙ Convince a major institution of higher learning to host (read: sponsor) the groundbreaking majorly important and earth-shattering festivities. “Blogging: New Coefficient Socioeconomic Force on Bioinformatics-ethicists.”

   ∙ Create conference website.

   ∙ Name A-Listers as moderators.

   ∙ Invite press (no charge) (include any and every faux-journo blogger, and all the usual “is blogging journalism?” blatherers).

   ∙ Declare a profound cause (associated with either the university or the topic) to be discussed at conference.

   ∙ Create scholarships for attendees unable to pay registration fee. Announce in your blog, conference blog, and send note to all A-Listers, A-Minus, and other types, seeking trackback and link mentions.

   ∙ Allow X-number of A-Listers to name at least 10 scholarship-worthy toadies. Bathe in glow of self-righteousness. Post blog entries to this effect. Share the bask and the glow with the A-Listers.

   ∙ Post comments in A-List blogs, always referring to the conference, no matter what the subject of the blog may have been.

   ∙ Release daily updates.

   ∙ Declare conference a success at least three weeks ahead of kick-off day.

   ∙ Schedule “off-hours” parties, allow sponsors to offer Wi-Fi and other high-tech/non-touch goodies. Remember to never announce sponsors as sponsors, but as contributing supporters.

   ∙ Seek commercial sponsors of next conference afterwards.

   ∙ Use whole deal to get more consulting and shilling assignments.

   ∙ Become consulting and shilling consultant. Name usual suspect A-Listers to esteemed Advisory Board.

   ∙ Create Social Network site based on the above.

   ∙ Sell site (and rights to the continuing conference) to major corporation and live happily ever after.

   Then give me my 10% fee for planning this whole enterprise (note use of proper term!) for you. Repeat process.

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