August 3, 2007

the keynote’s over

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[Me hol­ding up a Blue Mons­ter biz­card during my key­note etc. Photo by Erik.]
It’s been quite a day. Here’s my sponsor’s sum­mary of the event. And here’s Lockhart Steele piping in.
I’m exhaus­ted. Off to Miami tomo­rrow. See you soon…
[UPDATE:] During the key­note I made a big men­tion about “Social Objects”, an idea I was tur­ned onto by the anth­ro­po­lo­gist, Jyri Enges­trom. Here’s a video and a sli­deshow pre­sen­ta­tion he gave on the sub­ject, last June in Lon­don.
[UPDATE:] Thanks to Andy Roberts for also tur­ning me on to Soviet “Acti­vity Theory”. Phew. Heady stuff. But interesting.

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15 Responses to “the keynote’s over”

  1. Debbie says:

    The high­light of Con­nect SF! Being from Mic­ro­soft country in Seattle, I loved the Blue Mons­ter car­toon. Shows you what you can do with great mar­ke­ting. By the way, your “ensem­ble” from the Gap would fit right in as busi­ness style dress in the Seattle area. I know the guy who asked you where you bought your clothes could never be from Seattle.

  2. rock on dude.…and look, no fleece! :)
    enjoy Miami…head down to News Cafe and chill

  3. hash says:

    The speech was kick-ass. The stodgy real estate industry didn’t know what hit them!

  4. B.L. Ochman says:

    “Mic­ro­soft is my bitch now,” Mac­Leod joked to Con­nect atten­dees.
    OMG — did you really say that! I about fell over laughing when i read that.

  5. mediaman says:

    You are obviously bright, and have accu­mu­la­ted some knowledge.So why be so coarse when address groups. Calling Mic­ro­soft your “bitch” is soph­mo­ric and demeans your ‚other­wise, for­mi­da­ble abi­li­ties.
    Find a men­tor, or reflect before your speak. You will des­troy all you built , by mouthing off.
    media man

  6. hugh macleod says:

    Yes, BL, I said that. It was in refe­rence to the fact that the “stormhoek.com” URL is disc­reetly embed­ded in the Blue Mons­ter image.
    It was well recei­ved, to say the least.

  7. B.L. Ochman says:

    You are sooo mis­sing the point mr media man.

  8. Abso­lu­tely Dyna­mic — pos­sibly the first Key­note speach that was “life 2.0″

  9. Martin says:

    Slightly coarse lan­guage might just be part of Hugh’s for­mi­da­ble abi­li­ties. Got a lot of peo­ple thin­king, I guess, be it for the good or the bad. But run­ning around a lot of minds I don’t doubt. I never have felt Hugh said anything without thin­king about it. Don’t for­get, you’re tal­king to Sucessman’s youn­ger brother, you know.
    C’mon Hugh, post your Suc­ces­man car­toon, will you?

  10. Sandy says:

    We met at Inman Real esta­tes con­nect. Your were the high­light for me. Trying to soak up all the gray mat­ter infor­ma­tion left me fee­ling like…… You were a breath of fresh air :-) keep it up.

  11. Jim Duncan says:

    Outs­tan­ding speech. I can only hope that it gets pos­ted on InmanTV soon so that those who didn’t have the pri­vi­lege of being in atten­dance will be able to see what they missed.

  12. Sam says:

    High­light of any Inman con­fe­rence I’ve been too — Bra-Freakin-O!

  13. david brundage says:

    has a video sur­fa­ced of your key­note yet for those of us that weren’t able to attend? i’d love to hear what you had to say!

  14. Hugh — your speech was worth of a few million cases of wine. And dam­mit, now I am going to have to sign all my busi­ness cards:
    © Jonathan

  15. great to meet you at con­nect, hugh, and thanks for a kick-ass key­note! all of us here at inman news were gra­te­ful to have you. we’ve got­ten some great feed­back from our atten­dees as well. i’m sure that was just the first of many key­no­tes in your future. be well…