Category: Boston

Lisa and I are going to be taking in some sights today prior to BloggerCon tomorrow, including the MFA, as well as just kind of soaking up the ambience. First stop: Tealuxe.

Dave’s got a post collecting comments and TrackBacks from people heading to BloggerCon so we can all wish them safe travel. Having arrived Tuesday morning for recruiting, I wish everyone a safe and pleasant trip.

Dave says that he and Adam Curry will be sponsoring the pre-BloggerCon party on Friday night, at, um, the Hong Kong in Harvard Square.

Man. The Hong Kong. Site of plenty of late nights, some relatively sane (like the night we went there at 1:00 am when I was an undergrad, after riding a bus up from Charlottesville, and I almost lost a contact on the floor). Some not (like the night after my final exam first semester of grad school, when the acidic fruit in the world famous Scorpion Bowls made me feel like my ulcer was recurring, and I had to leave the party to buy Tums—a harbinger of more troubles later that evening).

Somehow, I can’t see myself dragging Lisa over to that party, even if it means missing out on a chance to share scorpion bowls with the blogerati.

Wish I had run into Adam at last night’s HBS recruiting event. Maybe I’ll get a chance to talk to him at BloggerCon.

I have one more event (out of four in two days) here at Harvard Business School in a few minutes, and then I can relax. It’s been a crazy couple of days, but I should be able to enjoy a little bit more of Boston soon.

I’m doing my best to get ready for BloggerCon. I’m downloading the Lydon interviews for listening on the plane; I’ve read the conference blog for days; I’ve signed up for dinner with Doc Searls (but will they let me bring my spouse?); am I forgetting anything prior to the conference?

Yes. I need to put my humble hat and my listening ears on. This is the first place I’ll be with other bloggers (outside the Seattle circle) who will know me not as “Tim of Jarrett House North” but rather “Tim the Microsoft blogger.” I expect I’ll get a lot of input, some of it friendly, some constructive, and some impassioned. And I expect a lot of it will be really good. But the important thing is, I’m not going to speak; I’m going to learn.

I’ll be in beautiful sunny Cambridge this week to talk to MIT and Harvard business school students about Microsoft. I’ll also be at the BloggerCon this weekend. In between I hope to squeeze in a little vacation and maybe celebrate our anniversary (Lisa is coming along).

I tend to be productive blogging on the plane; between airport wifi and long hours of enforced immobility, I find time to write software and get ideas out into words. Hope this trip continues the trend.

Going to the BloggerCon at Harvard? Fill out the Blogroll form. Dave says it’ll be used to (a) figure out who’s coming to the free sessions on Day 2; (b) construct a synthetic RSS feed from all attending; (c) drive a lot of traffic to your site (I added the last one). Note: You need to sign up as a member on the BloggerCon site to add yourself (it’s free).

Just got email from Dave. I was a lucky runner-up in the drawing for free passes to BloggerCon. It’s the weekend following a recruiting trip to MIT Sloan that I had already planned. Should be a fun session—and should be seriously great talking with these folks about blogs at home and at work.

In the “I didn’t know August 24th was such a popular birthday” department: congratulations to Jenny and her husband, Harvard Business School blogger Adam Medros, on the birth of their first child, Nathan Daniel, on Saturday. My congratulations, guys, and I’m looking forward to hearing how b-school life changes with Baby.

Tony has a piece (a pinch-hit for another blogger) on the Fox Sports New England website (I’ll have to add the permalink later, when it’s available) with a proposal about how to end the Bambino’s Curse. All I’ll say is it sounds like a good deal for the Cubs, Tony, but I’m not convinced it will help the Sox.

Update: Here’s the permalink to the piece. Still good reading.

Have I commented yet on the terrible irony that I left Boston and its environs just as Dave Winer, the Blogfather, was moving there? Yes? Ok, moving on to the main topic: BloggerCon, the first convention specifically for bloggers, is October 4 at Harvard Law. Registration online. The conference is invitation only, which may explain why I can’t find all the details on the main site, but here’s some goodies from the invitation:

4. Presenters include Glenn Reynolds, Joshua Marshall, Doc Searls, Scott Rosenberg, Adam Curry, Elizabeth Spiers, Jim Moore, Susan Mernit and more. Moderators: Lance Knobel, Ed Cone, Christopher Lydon and myself. And new discoveries, people we hadn’t heard about until we set out to find the most interesting and eclectic blogs and bloggers.

5. We’re going to talk about how weblogs are used in politics, business, journalism, the law, medicine, engineering and education. And it’s Harvard so you know it tastes good and is good for you too. ;->…8. Our local host committee of Boston-based bloggers includes Cluetrain author David Weinberger, InfoWorld’s Jon Udell, author Halley Suitt, MIT’s Andrew Grumet and Tracey Adams, Harvard librarian Jessica Baumgart and Larry Bouthillier from Harvard Business School.

Maybe I can talk Lisa into a trip back East for a four or five day weekend…

A cool piece today in the New York Times about the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood, contrasting it with the usual summer performances by the BSO. Sounds cool. Kind of wish I could see one—the Contemporary Music works sound right up my alley.

It’s been almost a month since John Robb, Userland’s president and COO, updated his blog. What’s going on?

… for making it through his first year at HBS. Part of me wishes I were back at business school right now. Another part of me is really glad it’s over with. At least I can live a little bit vicariously through Adam’s blog.