I've been invited by Microsoft to their Searchification 2007 event. This is going to include a Live Search product update, Live Search demonstrations and a session on Webmaster Tools (which if previous experience is anything to go by will be about 'how to make money as a webmaster').
Now, it's really nice to have the invite, and I don't want to appear churlish, but they're over in California and I'm over here in London and the invitation doesn't extend past their front gate. So am I going to be going? I imagine that you can probably work out the answer yourself. However, that's not the point. The point is that Microsoft is a bit big. And it's a bit technical in emphasis. Yet the ONLY way they can think of running an event like this is to get people to sit down in front of them and talk to them face to face. No webcasting, not even hosting something in Second Life - nothing. So we're going to end up with pure American feedback on the product.
Are these people serious? One can only conclude that they're not, given that they've made no attempt to think in anything except a very traditional paradigm. (I'm not even going to talk about carbon footprints!) Absolutely amazing.
"Are these people serious?" Yes, of course they are. Misguided, unimaginative, perhaps even stupid, but certainly very, very serious!
Posted by: Hazel | September 21, 2007 at 09:03 AM