| February 3, 2005 | Things Go Glimmering |
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I'm sitting in Miami airport in front of the American Airlines Admirals Club. They have a wi-fi hotspot for all of my internet needs. To bad there isn't a A/C outlet around here... The Poynter seminar ended quickly with everyone wheeling their luggage and disbursing across the country and world in a matter of minutes. "This was better than Burning Man!" I exclaimed to Howard at the end. To anyone who knows me -- that is a pretty high compliment. You know how I feel about Burning Man. What I mean by that is -- during my past five years attending that art festival in the Nevada desert, I've met some of the smartest, most interesting people -- who are all doing creative, amazing things with their lives. And we have the best conversations. That's exactlly what Poynter was like. Everyone had so much to say, and none of it was mundane or filler. It was the kind of stuff that gets me interested and excited. It reminded me of some of the lines from F. Scott Fitsgerald's short story "Absolution" (that I often quote and like to write about):
I only wish I could have talked to everyone more... It seemed to go by so quickly. I could have talked with those people forever, I think. Or just listened, which you know for me is unusual. *wink* My team (the content team) created a blog to continue our discussions online, and I hope people will go and post there... I'm going tell all the editors at Yahoo! about Poynter. And yes, there *are* editors at Yahoo! who program a good portion of the news. Actual human editors. Unlike at Google. And I think this is a good thing. Here, watch them as they worked on covering the U.S. Presidential Election in November 2004. I'm off to St. Thomas right now to visit my mom for a few days. (Funny because I just visited my dad who recently retired to North Port, Florida). My mom spends the winter in St. Thomas with her boyfriend, Richard, the Italian Rodney Dangerfield. Mindy is flying down from NYC to visit too. Since I worked over the Christmas holidays, I'm really ready for a few days break. I'll be offline until next Friday. This means, I won't be hosting my radio show this Friday night. Carion Boy and Mrs. Lachey will be hosting it for me. I taught them how to use the mixing board and studio equipment, so hopefully it'll go pretty well. So, listen online (6-8p.m. PST Friday night) and let me know how they do. posted by Jess Barron @ 10:36 AM 
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