Comments on: Con odds and ends http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/02/con-odds-and-ends/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:32:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: trama http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/02/con-odds-and-ends/#comment-123813 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:47:09 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/02/con-odds-and-ends/#comment-123813 Ich erklare meinen Freunden uber diese Seite. Interessieren! Ich erklare meinen Freunden uber diese Seite. Interessieren!

]]> by: Simon Fraser http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/02/con-odds-and-ends/#comment-851 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:33:35 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/02/con-odds-and-ends/#comment-851 To say that Ars Technica is a gaming site is like saying The Beat is a Gerard Butler fan site. It's part of what they do, but there's much more to it than that. Si. To say that Ars Technica is a gaming site is like saying The Beat is a Gerard Butler fan site. It’s part of what they do, but there’s much more to it than that.

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]]> by: Rachel Kadushin http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/02/con-odds-and-ends/#comment-840 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:45:21 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/02/con-odds-and-ends/#comment-840 It was very difficult for me to get around on the convention floor, and I'm a native new yorker used to subways at rush hour and Chinatown during new years. However, I was able to do get in some "aggressive" networking. Not angry or mean, mind you -- but with the whole place being some version of, "Oooh, Shiny," (as author Win Eckert described it), I had to jump in sometimes really quickly. Case in point - at the end of the lamentably named "Black Panel" (why only one?) I had to practically jump up on to the podium to have a brief sentence or two with Michael Davis. Then, later when I saw Dwayne McDuffie (who I knew on sight from previous conventions), I had only a moment to hand him my DVD (and hopefully my business card) before he, too, was swept away in the crowd. The pros and dealers had the "industry lounge" in which to network... those who knew of it. I still spent plenty on convention center food and coffee, but probably saved about $30 on their water, coffee and lemonade. While I was waiting for people I knew on sight, I also talked to anyone who looked interesting -- especially anyone old. That was kinda cool. I spotted Ray Bradbury in the industry lounge after his panel with about 30 people keeping him company, but earlier in the convention, the very distinctive looking George RR Martin was in there with only a few people chatting with him. I hope that some of t he new people I met will remember me, and was also glad to catch up with a few people from previous conventions (like Star Trek The Next Generation story writer Jimmy Diggs). It was a shame, however, that I only got the chance to wave at Sergio Aragones on Wednesday and that poor Mark Evanier was moderating almost back to back panels (counter programmed often against HUGE, HUGE media event panels). By the time I got to meet him in person (I had chatted with him on the radio in February of this year), I was glad to just introduce myself in person, shake his hand, and let him do his somewhat weary thing. I hope to blog more on myspace ( http://www.myspace.com/village_mystic_r ) - but am getting over a cold, so this is actually the first place I've had to chance to write about some of this. -Rachel It was very difficult for me to get around on the convention floor, and I’m a native new yorker used to subways at rush hour and Chinatown during new years. However, I was able to do get in some “aggressive” networking. Not angry or mean, mind you — but with the whole place being some version of, “Oooh, Shiny,” (as author Win Eckert described it), I had to jump in sometimes really quickly.

Case in point - at the end of the lamentably named “Black Panel” (why only one?) I had to practically jump up on to the podium to have a brief sentence or two with Michael Davis. Then, later when I saw Dwayne McDuffie (who I knew on sight from previous conventions), I had only a moment to hand him my DVD (and hopefully my business card) before he, too, was swept away in the crowd.

The pros and dealers had the “industry lounge” in which to network… those who knew of it. I still spent plenty on convention center food and coffee, but probably saved about $30 on their water, coffee and lemonade.

While I was waiting for people I knew on sight, I also talked to anyone who looked interesting — especially anyone old. That was kinda cool. I spotted Ray Bradbury in the industry lounge after his panel with about 30 people keeping him company, but earlier in the convention, the very distinctive looking George RR Martin was in there with only a few people chatting with him.

I hope that some of t he new people I met will remember me, and was also glad to catch up with a few people from previous conventions (like Star Trek The Next Generation story writer Jimmy Diggs).

It was a shame, however, that I only got the chance to wave at Sergio Aragones on Wednesday and that poor Mark Evanier was moderating almost back to back panels (counter programmed often against HUGE, HUGE media event panels). By the time I got to meet him in person (I had chatted with him on the radio in February of this year), I was glad to just introduce myself in person, shake his hand, and let him do his somewhat weary thing.

I hope to blog more on myspace ( http://www.myspace.com/village_mystic_r ) - but am getting over a cold, so this is actually the first place I’ve had to chance to write about some of this.

-Rachel

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