And the award for disappointment goes to…
Posted on Friday, April 20th, 2007 at 8:36pm. #
Yesterday, I was at the Production 07 conference, where I get described (in the Media Guardian’s writeup) as “digital tsar”.
What can I say about the conference?
Well, I loved the piece from Francis Currie about “words” (though I doubt it was particularly relevant to the audience, but it’s curiously very close to the findings of an internal review we’ve done on the Virgin Radio website). I enjoyed ex-colleague Trevor Jordan’s utter demolition of (another ex-colleague) Brett Harley’s show-prep service, only because, as the Guardian’s John Plunkett said, Brett ended up having a rictus grin on his face for ten minutes while Trevor said lots of incredibly rude (and true) things about his service. (I didn’t use show-prep when I was on the air: I tried it once and it didn’t really work.)
Much of the rest of the day was incredibly poorly done, though. Naturally, being a radio conference, the sound was crap - the monkeys driving the desk had no clue about how microphones worked. There were other disappointments, too.
Mind, that was nothing to the disappointment that Adam Bowie writes up in the after-piss-poor-conference-piss-up. If you wondered who the man is at the top of this posting - he’s Sir Paul McCartney. Or not.
Paul Easton said at April 21st, 2007 at 10:08am 
steve martin said at April 21st, 2007 at 12:56pm 
