Monday, April 16, 2007
If Sinbad is going to NAB, why aren't I?
Sinbad called me up and invited me to meet up with him at his show at the Hard Rock Live last night, so I of course obliged (and took Mike Strum with me, since he's oddly the only iProng staff member who lives within driving distance of me). After the show Sinbad asked me if I was going to NAB this week, and when I said that he wasn't, he said that he was. This begged the question: if a professional actor/comedian like Sinbad is attending a tech industry event like NAB simply out of enthusiasm, shouldn't a tech journalist like me be there too?
Of course I'll get to cheat by using Sinbad as a de facto celebrity NAB correspondent when we tape our upcoming iProng Radio interview, but it gets me wondering what I'll be missing out on. I looked into the possibility of attending NAB in 2006 but ended up passing because it didn't seem relevant enough to iProng, but I'll have to go back and take another look at all the press stuff that NAB has been sending me over the past year. It's too late to even consider making a last-minute run to Las Vegas this week so I'd simply be investigating possibilities for next year; I've got to be in Charlotte later this week to interview Rocco DeLuca and The Burden after one of his gigs, and I don't have any desire to stop in Vegas on my way from Florida to North Carolina (I've already had one trip like that this year, and one's enough).
Sinbad called me up and invited me to meet up with him at his show at the Hard Rock Live last night, so I of course obliged (and took Mike Strum with me, since he's oddly the only iProng staff member who lives within driving distance of me). After the show Sinbad asked me if I was going to NAB this week, and when I said that he wasn't, he said that he was. This begged the question: if a professional actor/comedian like Sinbad is attending a tech industry event like NAB simply out of enthusiasm, shouldn't a tech journalist like me be there too?
Of course I'll get to cheat by using Sinbad as a de facto celebrity NAB correspondent when we tape our upcoming iProng Radio interview, but it gets me wondering what I'll be missing out on. I looked into the possibility of attending NAB in 2006 but ended up passing because it didn't seem relevant enough to iProng, but I'll have to go back and take another look at all the press stuff that NAB has been sending me over the past year. It's too late to even consider making a last-minute run to Las Vegas this week so I'd simply be investigating possibilities for next year; I've got to be in Charlotte later this week to interview Rocco DeLuca and The Burden after one of his gigs, and I don't have any desire to stop in Vegas on my way from Florida to North Carolina (I've already had one trip like that this year, and one's enough).
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