Archives for July 2008

My speaking schedule for late 2008

Every few months I like to give people an update on where I expect to be over the next few months. I apologize in advance if I have to decline other speaking invitations, but I’m genuinely trying to travel less and speak less these days to get a better work/life balance. Here are my tentative plans:

This week: In-laws are visiting, so I will be posting less and slower on email.

August 11-15, 2008: I’m planning to attend SIGGRAPH 2008 down in Los Angeles. I haven’t been in 8-9 years, so I want to see what I’ve missed in the computer graphics field and maybe catch up with a few folks from grad school.

August 18-22, 2008: I’ll be at SES San Jose on a keynote panel about the future of search with Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Tim Westergren of Pandora and others. It should be a lot of fun. 🙂

Added: November 5-7, 2008: I spoke on a panel at the Web 2.0 summit on the subject of “Preventing Virtual Blight”.

November 11-14, 2008: Gotta be PubCon in Vegas! A family member has a birthday near the beginning of the conference, but I’ll be there in time for the traditional Search Engine Super Session.

January 19-21-ish, 2009: I don’t have all the details yet, but I’m planning to be in Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration and maybe an inaugural ball.

February 3-7, 2009: I’ll be down in Long Beach, CA for TED 2009, just to soak up what TED is like as an attendee.

I’m skipping Black Hat and DEFCON, even though I wanted to see what they’re like. It looks like I’ll probably miss WordCamp because of SIGGRAPH. 🙁

By the way, if this sounds like a lot of stuff to you, just be glad you’re not watching as many conferences as Robert Scoble does on Upcoming:

Rober Scoble's schedule

Sheesh. 🙂

Twitter/Summize search flaky?

I’ve started to post more on my twitter account recently. Less than two weeks ago, Twitter bought Summize. Good for them; I like both companies. But http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wordpress+mattcutts should return this entry in Twitter’s search results. I don’t see it in Twitter’s search results:

No joy on a Twitter search

What’s the story, Twitter/Summize folks? I can’t escape the feeling that I would have found that entry on pre-acquisition Summize. Does anyone know more about when Twitter’s search has gaps?

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