Several of this blog's betters have been invited to attend a Blogging Conference at a little-known technical college in Cambridge, MA. They've also been invited to pony up $500.00 for the privilege of attending. Not suprisingly, the popular R.V.S.P. includes an invitation for the sponsors to deny gravity while directing the contents of their bladders along a vertical length of rope.

But the self-important twaddle of the conference's sponsors is worth a few laughs. Watch as they plan their conference out loud:

Sessions

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Politics -- Christopher Lydon


Ideas: Glenn Reynolds, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Walter Cronkite, Click and Clack, Democratic Presidential candidates.


Aired live on WGBH?

A roundtable featuring a right-wing professor, two former progressive Presidents who have been vilified by said wingnut, Walter Cronkite, Click and Clack and the Democratic presidential candidates -- and they'll talk about blogs! Fucking brilliant! I can't believe anyone hasn't thought of this before.

And of course the local public radio station will want to cover it live. They'd be crazy not to.

Outstanding questions

Invitation only? Yes.


Is the name really BloggerCon? Yes it is


Blog for BC? Yes, of course.


Friday evening speakers dinner, Harvard Faculty Club?


Sunday brunch, super-invite only.


Sunday birds of feather meetings at Berkman offices.

Will you need a second mortgage if you want one of those super-invites?

Here's my suggestion for the keynote address: Which Came First: Blogging Conferences and Supercilious Twats?