The Register announced today their new directory of IT events.
I checked out a few of their top events so far
- Solaris Administration: A Hands-On Introduction–£1,575
- Strategic Modelling for Building Enterprise Architecture–£1345.38
- Strategy Planning for PR Professionals–£395
Uh oh. The Register’s motto is “Biting the Hand that Feeds IT”, but Andrew Orlowski is going to chew those guys up and spit them out.
The Register failed to warn event sponsors of Orlowski’s Prime Directive: no conference should cost more than DefCon ($75) or CodeCon ($95).
Remember, it was BloggerCon’s $500* ticket that made Orlowski sink his teeth into organizer Dave Winer, asking what gave him the right to “fleece” bloggers “for real bucks.” And, compared to some of Orlowski’s other remarks in the article, that was just a love bite.
We can still hope–I like to look on the bright side–that Orlowski may not notice his paper’s new event page. After all, he never noticed BloggerCon’s free Day 2. I mean, if he did, you have to wonder why he never apologized for even one of his earlier nasty remarks.
On an even brighter side, Orlowski’s BloggerCon feeding frenzy changed his previous stance of all abuse, all the time, of every blogger. He actually acknowleged the world includes a few “excellent, content-first webloggers.”
Okay, so this group includes only bloggers not speaking at BloggerCon. Still, that’s got to be some kind of progress.
And in conclusion, may I point out that there’s a difference between biting the hand that feeds IT and just…biting.
* $500 is more than my blogging budget for a decade–not counting the coffee I spill on my keyboard. That’s why I’m going only to Day 2 of BloggerCon–a free day, with even more events than the $500 Day 1.