More San Francisco Web Digit X Events

So the conversation continues around the definition of Web 2.0. There's been some backlash from the web geek community about the high price of the Web 2.0 conference, so there are already two concurrent un-conferences

My buddy (and gracious host while I'm in San Francisco) Chris Heuer is throwing a Web 2.1 BrainJam, based on the model of Bar Camp - which rocked. Hopefully some cool people will show up and demo some neat stuff, make informal presentations or spark interesting conversations. Oh Chris, tempting me to skip a session or two of the conference I'm supposed to be in town for!

Plucky Merlin Mann is throwing a Web 1.0 event where people come and pitch their 1999 era business plans.
Mine: an entirely Flash-based travel magazine running on an Oracle database that pays writers nothing and has large ad accounts with Fortune 500 companies as the only revenue stream. Somehow, we need to get local delivery of goods factored in there too. Awareness will be built on TV ads during sweeps week and the Superbowl, celebrity endorsements, some full airplane branding paintjobs, a fleet of H2's, glitzy parties in world class cities (Tokyo, Paris, London, New York, LA) and ads beamed by laser onto the moon. We'll steer it with a brand name CEO with no relevant industry experience, at the end of his career and looking to slack off before he retires. We'll go public six months after the first record-breaking round of VC funding. (No resemblance to any failed dot bomb company implied, accidentally or otherwise)

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