On his live Cliff’s Notes grind.įor completeness’s sake, here’s the one full set of notes I did take at the start, before the lost Ann Powers and Carl Wilson notes: The presentations were recorded for iTunesU and will at some point be available from there as free downloads.įinally I do have to record my favorite comment I got as I was madly typing away - of course, via Twitter, from Eric Harvey aka Marathon is #PopCon2011’s foremost purveyor of unpaid documentary labor. Corrections or clarifications from the presenters are always welcome! At some later point this week I will try and add all links (to presenters’ webpages, video links, etc.) where appropriate. If you’d like to go back through everyone’s reactions, settle in to review the results via the #PopCon2011 tag - it’ll take a while! Various reports and blog posts are surfacing already and there’s more to come - and after this paragraph, here’ll be mine! Before that, much and many thanks to the organizers - Eric Weisbard, Ann, Robert Fink and everyone helping from UCLA and KCRW and beyond - and as ever great to see everyone again, hanging with old friends and making many new ones! See you all next year at NYU, I hope!Īll notes are taken directly from my Twitter posts and, I must heavily emphasize, are not meant to be anything but that, quickly typed notes - names may be spelled wrong, concepts oversimplified and so forth. As with my past notes, my goal is just to give a taste of what happened, and to encourage anyone interested to attend next year as well. When I first mentioned to Ann that I had switched from blogging to Twitter for coverage she laughed and noted, “I guess blogging IS dead!” I was thinking that a bit myself, I admit! But this form of compilation after the fact allows both aspects to thrive - if the Twitter posts are ‘forever,’ this kind of centralization of the flow has its place too. I’ve always been concerned that my notes are, ultimately, merely a small sampling of the whole conference at any one point, so this kind of result is the best. Further, most of the other posters like Wissoker and many others were spread out in almost all the other panels at any given time, so we might (I emphasize might) have had as complete an overview as possible of the conference in real time for the first time ever. The end result, combined with the relentless ‘make sure I hashtag/link all presenters’ nature of my posting, meant that the overall notes were less detailed than in past years, but I still ended up with a lot of words at the end of it all. Other examples cropped up on Twitter throughout the weekend, as well as moments of clarification, side discussion and more. I admit I was as surprised as anyone could be when my friend Mike Daddino - 3000 miles away in NYC - posed a question in response to Bob Christgau’s talk, and I was almost taken aback by everyone’s surprise and amusement when I passed on that question to him in the Q&A following his presentation. It’s not so different from my Twitter-based concert reviews, after all.īut it turned out this was not only a good idea but a great idea, in that it allowed for something I’d never considered - instant reactions and questions from those following my posts there to respond to the presentations, at least in the redacted/summarized form I was providing. However - following the lead on Twitter from such good folks as Ann and Ken Wissoker - I figured after a bit that I could just switch over and do what I’d been doing there. Okay, so my plan for covering everything at EMP Pop Conference 2011 changed pretty rapidly from what I was expecting! After an early glitch with WordPress wiped out my notes from Ann Powers and Carl Wilson’s excellent talks, I was rather peeved and wondered if I shouldn’t just relax this weekend and just take everything in.
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