What a contrast between the hyper energized Mashup Camp with college students, internet legends, and free admission (hey, I did donate some cash!) and the fancy pants Technology Entertainment Design Conference which I … had to miss because I 1) had never heard of it and 2) didn’t care to pony up $4400, by INVITATION ONLY, to hear a bunch of very rich people talking about … something. With a barrier to admission like that you’ve got to wonder what these folks take away from the experience.

If your request is accepted you will be entitled to purchase a TED pass for $4,400. We welcome to TED a wide variety of leading thinkers and doers from all fields of endeavor.

… who are rich/gullible enough to pony up $100 per hour 24/7 for the duration of the conference. … thanks but….I’ll pass.

OK, for the benefit of the few who read THIS blog I thought I’d throw out a list of the “A list blogs” that are read by …. more people than you can shake a stick at.

Interestingly I’m thinking Blogs are quite DEficient as a conversational medium because you’ve got the blog OWNER in control and the commenters in a very weak position. Tim Berners Lee, who invented the internet even before Al Gore, wanted a “two way conversation”. We are NOT there yet and I think a sort of wikified blogging niche mashup forum environment, where people with similar interest sets will come together in unstructured but highly motivating and unstructured but facilitating and enabling ways, will eventually rule the internet.

I hope so and in fact will work towards this goal in the travel space.

From TECHNORATI: Top 100 blogs

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