I'm conference hopping today before I take off for Chicago today to meet Christine and our girls. I'm at Guy Kawasaki's Revenue Bootcamp this morning and headed to TechCrunch's Real-Time Stream event later today.
Slice of Revenue Bootcamp
Keynote
Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired magazine
Author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price
11:00am - 12:00pm
Is the Advertising Model Dead?
1:30pm - 2:30pm
This panel answers questions like: Can you build a real business around advertising revenues? What does it take to optimize ad revenue? Are new ad techniques energizing?
Samir Arora - Chairman and CEO, Glam Media
Neil Chase - Vice President for Author Services, Federated Media
Xavier Zang - Publisher Partner Management, Microsoft
Tim Kendall - Director of Monetization, Facebook
David Kopp - Senior Director, N. American Ads, Yahoo!
Bill Reichert - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures
Slice of Real-Time Search
9:00 - 9:45 am
The Real Time Opportunity
Q&A with leading angel investors John Borthwick and Ron Conway, moderated by Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor.
9:45 - 10:30 am
The Real Time Moment
* Jack Dorsey, Twitter
* Chris Cox, Facebook
* Bret Taylor, Friendfeed
* Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Julie & Julia
Remember food blogger Julie Powell’s Julie/Julia Project? Over a year, Julie Powell cooked her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogged about it. Then it became a book. Here’s the NYT review. And now, it’s a movie with Meryl Streep directed by the wonderful Nora Ephron. (I met Ms. Ephron at the movie screening and only gabbed with her for like 3 minutes but she seemed wonderful.)
I saw the movie screening (it comes out in August) with a BookExpo America audience, one well versed in this publishing story, Julia Child’s story and the story of Judith Jones, the American editrix that published Julia first.
Food was the star of the show, after the story of Julie & Julia (or was food first really?). Butter and sauces and meats and fowl and fish were gorgeously shot, luscious to look at and clearly enjoyed by the characters.
The movie also showcased a fictionalized version of Julia Child: her appetite for life, her joie de vivre and her innate sexiness (yes, sexiness). Meryl Streep was the embodiment of this larger than life food icon, and she seemed to be having a great time portraying Julia.
For me, the food, the cooking, Julia Child's story, the copper pots and pans, the whisking, the braising of beef in wine and the trussing of chicken legs were joyous reminders of our collective human affection and respect for food, culinary craft and technique and the wonder that is cooking and entertaining.
For someone that has food allergies, like this Allergic Girl, all the foodie elements of the movie deeply resonated with me.
Are you surprised? Perhaps you think that having food allergies means I dread mealtimes? Or that I should dread them? Or that I wouldn't like movies about food and other people's carefree abandon when eating anything they want, anytime?
I know for many of you, by many I mean millions, mealtimes are fraught with panic, anxiety, even fear and dread. Joy doesn’t enter that dining room; joy is for other people and food.
Let me say to you right now and I hope you listen closely: Joy and food and food allergies can co-exist.
I am proof: My love of food has not been diminished by food allergies. I think my foodie love has been heightened precisely because every safe morsel is savored and treasured and a reason for delight.
Sure, I wolf down a quick rice pasta dish every now on my couch in my jammies without much thought or pomp (like I did while writing this post). But for the most part give me some roasted asparagus in olive oil with sea salt and a fresh squeeze of lemon and watch as I consume each spear with relish.
I invite you to start thinking about this, for yourself. Food and joy and food allergies and then joy again. If you think about this "issue" all the time, then think a little deeper than you have before. Try to be kind to yourself and connect to what you love about sustenance i.e. food. And then maybe see the movie when it comes out. And have some butter.
I saw the movie screening (it comes out in August) with a BookExpo America audience, one well versed in this publishing story, Julia Child’s story and the story of Judith Jones, the American editrix that published Julia first.
Food was the star of the show, after the story of Julie & Julia (or was food first really?). Butter and sauces and meats and fowl and fish were gorgeously shot, luscious to look at and clearly enjoyed by the characters.
The movie also showcased a fictionalized version of Julia Child: her appetite for life, her joie de vivre and her innate sexiness (yes, sexiness). Meryl Streep was the embodiment of this larger than life food icon, and she seemed to be having a great time portraying Julia.
For me, the food, the cooking, Julia Child's story, the copper pots and pans, the whisking, the braising of beef in wine and the trussing of chicken legs were joyous reminders of our collective human affection and respect for food, culinary craft and technique and the wonder that is cooking and entertaining.
For someone that has food allergies, like this Allergic Girl, all the foodie elements of the movie deeply resonated with me.
Are you surprised? Perhaps you think that having food allergies means I dread mealtimes? Or that I should dread them? Or that I wouldn't like movies about food and other people's carefree abandon when eating anything they want, anytime?
I know for many of you, by many I mean millions, mealtimes are fraught with panic, anxiety, even fear and dread. Joy doesn’t enter that dining room; joy is for other people and food.
Let me say to you right now and I hope you listen closely: Joy and food and food allergies can co-exist.
I am proof: My love of food has not been diminished by food allergies. I think my foodie love has been heightened precisely because every safe morsel is savored and treasured and a reason for delight.
Sure, I wolf down a quick rice pasta dish every now on my couch in my jammies without much thought or pomp (like I did while writing this post). But for the most part give me some roasted asparagus in olive oil with sea salt and a fresh squeeze of lemon and watch as I consume each spear with relish.
I invite you to start thinking about this, for yourself. Food and joy and food allergies and then joy again. If you think about this "issue" all the time, then think a little deeper than you have before. Try to be kind to yourself and connect to what you love about sustenance i.e. food. And then maybe see the movie when it comes out. And have some butter.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Food Allergy Twitter Party
Talk to me in real time May 15th at 12pm EST through Twitter!
Join me and lots of your favorite food allergy bloggers (and win prizes!) during the Food Allergy Twitter Party this Friday, May 15 hosted by Food Allergy Buzz (whom I met last week at the FAAN Tarrytown conference) and Best Allergy Sites.
The party will take place at 12 Noon EST and at 10:30 PM EST. (I'll be on the Noon-12pm slot).
To follow or participate in either party time, visit www.tweetgrid.com or another Twitter real-time dashboard of your choosing and type in #foodallergy. This will take you to the party where you will see the streaming conversation.
More directions here.
Hope to see tweet with you tomorrow!
Join me and lots of your favorite food allergy bloggers (and win prizes!) during the Food Allergy Twitter Party this Friday, May 15 hosted by Food Allergy Buzz (whom I met last week at the FAAN Tarrytown conference) and Best Allergy Sites.
The party will take place at 12 Noon EST and at 10:30 PM EST. (I'll be on the Noon-12pm slot).
To follow or participate in either party time, visit www.tweetgrid.com or another Twitter real-time dashboard of your choosing and type in #foodallergy. This will take you to the party where you will see the streaming conversation.
More directions here.
Hope to see tweet with you tomorrow!
Monday, May 11, 2009
FAAN Conference, Tarrytown
I’ve never been to a Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) event before. My assumption was that it was mainly focused on families and kids and, as you know, I advocate for adults with food allergies.
What I discovered was that the daylong seminar was a great primer (and reminder) for newly allergic folks; geared toward for families and extended families of food allergic children but appropriate for food allergic adults too.
(I Tweeted the whole times, lots of interesting info bits: http://twitter.com/allergicgirl. Foodallergybuzz was there too tweeting away: http://twitter.com/foodallergybuzz)
I couldn’t possible summarize hours worth of incredibly valid and valuable information in one post. All I can say is: Get educated, get motivated, connect with community and get reliable information. If there's a FAAN event in your city, consider attending.
If you have food allergies and want to learn how I dine out successfully (among other strategies for survival), join me for a family or adult Worry-Free Dinners event either in NYC, or selected cities, throughout the year.
Whether you or your family has been newly diagnosed or you’ve had food allergies a long time, it’s always worth it to continue to educate yourself, to meet and connect with others in the food allergic community and to know you are not alone.
Thank you FAAN for an educational and fun day.
What I discovered was that the daylong seminar was a great primer (and reminder) for newly allergic folks; geared toward for families and extended families of food allergic children but appropriate for food allergic adults too.
(I Tweeted the whole times, lots of interesting info bits: http://twitter.com/allergicgirl. Foodallergybuzz was there too tweeting away: http://twitter.com/foodallergybuzz)
I couldn’t possible summarize hours worth of incredibly valid and valuable information in one post. All I can say is: Get educated, get motivated, connect with community and get reliable information. If there's a FAAN event in your city, consider attending.
If you have food allergies and want to learn how I dine out successfully (among other strategies for survival), join me for a family or adult Worry-Free Dinners event either in NYC, or selected cities, throughout the year.
Whether you or your family has been newly diagnosed or you’ve had food allergies a long time, it’s always worth it to continue to educate yourself, to meet and connect with others in the food allergic community and to know you are not alone.
Thank you FAAN for an educational and fun day.
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