Just as you can post what you like on your weblog, if someone wants to post about PDC on their weblog, they can.
If you don't like it, don't read them. It's really that simple.
Roy,
As the PDC hypster #1, I agree.
Let's just share what we know.
Plus, it invites people to try to get you to leak what you do know if you admit to knowing anyway. And, it puts you on the radar screens of the NDA police.
Part of this is just a frustration of knowing we can't talk for a month.
Damn it's hard keeping your mouth shut.
Sorry you won't be coming.
By the way, you added to the noise level. I didn't see the post you linked to on weblogs.asp.net but I saw your post.
That's one thing that's different about weblogs than newsgroups. you can avoid the posts you aren't interested in.
But, not when they get aggregated into the .NET Weblogs.
Damian: I agree. It's their weblog and they can post whatever they like. This, however, is *my* weblog which means I can say what I think about people who take joy out of saying "I know and YOU don't!". Free speech, you know?
So It's my total right (just like it is theirs) to write out stuff that might disconcern other people. However, I try to keep that stuff to a minmimum, and only wrote this when I reached the point of no-freakin-return.
Scoble: rather than answering "for real" you circled around and tried to find an interesting comeback. It's real easy to find easy comebacks for almost anything you know? But answering to the point, which if you had not written those last 3 lines would have been considered such an answer, is a much harder deal.
I am going to stand on neutral ground as to what can or can't be said about the PDC, but if you're interested I posted the list of products I received as a Student Ambassador on my blog.
Roy
I couldn't agree more. And yes, Scoble is right up there with the best of them. True, people can say what they like, but it is getting a tad repetitive.
I like the ones that say "I had so much trouble booking a hotel room". And I can't wait for the inevitable "Only 1 week, 3 days, 12 hours and 4 minutes to go"....
but Matt - you don'th ave to wait for that ...it's here: scottwater.com/blog/
(sorry - couldn't be helped).
I don't disagree with what you are saying. I actually wrote about the fact that I was annoyed by the noise when I wasn't going (though for quite different reasons) and then felt a little guilty mentioning it after I decided to go after all (weblogs.asp.net/jlerman/posts/29408.aspx)