Every time we go to New York we buy more equipment

Last week I was out attending Search Engine Strategies in New York. I got the chance to meet Richard Edelman, who had some fantastic ideas for us.  The show frankly wasn’t that great from my limited perspective as a technologist – although it was interesting to hear firsthand what Jeeves was doing after being let go and it was awesome to chat with Chris Pirillo, I didn’t see anything all that new and exciting there from a technology standpoint.

We were about to head to the IBDNetwork Web 2.0 event in San Francisco, and Al and I realized we didn’t bring any monitors for demos. If you saw us at the event, you know that we had the best screens, and, not arguably the best software. Luckily, New York City has one or two computer stores.  Here’s a photo of me carrying the screens from our hotel to the cab we took to the airport.  Why do I always get stuck lugging the equipment?

Last time we were in this situation, it was the night before C3 Expo.  We had all the signs and the materials ready and went to go duplicate them at Kinko’s, when we realized that it would cost us more to duplicate copies of our fliers than just to buy a color printer and pay for toner, etc.  So of course we bought the color printer and did the duplication ourselves.  The result was some great coverage on the local CBS morning news.

The demos at the Web 2.0 event went really well, and we met some very cool people, including Reg Cheramy, who was podcasting.

Anyway, to make a long story short, now I have a nice new monitor in my office.  Now I just have to take it out of the box!  And write an entry about Web 2.0.

-j