June is always a time that's slightly crazed for me (in a good way): it's
the month when I celebrate both my birthday and my wedding anniversary;
plus it's solstice time, when the days are longest and (for light-seeking
souls like me) spirits highest. It's also the period, in the trough between
Memorial Day and the start of high vacation season, when lots of events get
planned. Here's some that are on my horizon:
This Sunday I'm heading off to the Wall Street Journal's "D" Conference, run by Kara Swisher and Walt
Mossberg -- featuring, among others, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Last year,
I understand they shared a stage (I wasn't there to confirm the executive
convergence). We'll see if that tradition continues.
Next Friday, the same Long Now Foundation
series that hosted Brian Eno's
amazing talk last fall will present Bruce Sterling, at Fort Mason in
San Francisco. If you've ever heard Sterling's seemingly free-associational
-- but really, I'm convinced, carefully choreographed -- riffing, you know
it's a treat. The topic? "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole."
Last year, the Digital
Storytelling Festival in Sedona was a blast. I can't make it to this year's event -- June
10-12, in Sedona once more -- but it promises to be even better, with J.D. Lasica talking about his "DarkNet" project and lots of
other folks presenting their work.
Finally, Supernova
returns to the Bay Area June 24-25. A year and a half ago, Kevin Werbach's
first conference served as a great
intro to the issues around Wi-Fi, Web services, and other
grassroots-driven, geek-centered technologies whose adoption has begun to
fuel a new wave of Silicon Valley buzz. It'll be interesting to see where
Werbach takes these subjects now that it has begun to move from the edge to
the mainstream.
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