Because my car has better air conditioning than my house, and because a four-hour drive in a car with leg room is better than three hours waiting for and flying in a plane that has none, I will be driving to Las Vegas next week for the XBiz Summer Forum.
Even though the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino has air conditioning of its own, it is still an odd choice to hold a convention in a city that is officially hotter than Hell in the middle of July, a month Satan described as “a hot, hot month, especially in Vegas. Jesus Christ.”
Activities at the XBiz Summer Forum include sweating, parties, and numerous seminars including the inevitable 2257 regulations breakout session, a two-part Distribution How-To, Information and Content Security panels, and How to Generate Free Traffic, at which I will speak.
I’m a little worried about what I’ll say. Should I demand that webmasters “Provide quality material”? “More boobs, Less Dumb”? These people don’t want to hear that.
XBiz staff will moderate a seminar on How to Write a Press Release. I am looking forward to this. It is understood that conferences and trade shows make money for the entities sponsoring them, but the Press Release seminar will be the most self-serving; it is a plea by the staff to stop sending them For Immediate Release pieces about a hat giveaway.
I will admire their balls if they say, “Do not, for the love of G-d, write press releases like 90 percent of the people who write press releases in the adult industry.”
Previously: Gram Ponante announces iLick; Breaking: New copy of XBizWorld contains mousepad
See also: XBiz Summer Forum, Treatment of heat prostration
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