EightBlack.

If someone had have told me 2 years ago that I would be flying to Sin City (aka Las Vegas) to attend a blogging conference, I would have thought that they had inhaled an entire bag of weed, let alone a single joint.

Vegas, incidentally, is a city I dislike immensely. And I’m Asian (well, half of me is. Actually the top half - the bottom is African American and that’s the story I’m sticking to).

We Asians apparently love gambling and prostitution. And I can’t walk past a roulette wheel without having a bet. So I should be right at home in Vegas. But it sort of reminds me of a prostrate exam - necessary yet painful. Everything is such a “hustle” in Vegas. And it’s all right there on “the strip”. You know you’re in trouble when you actually land at the airport and right there at the gate, are slot machines with old people propped to one side, obviously using up every last coin in their pockets - hoping for one last chance.

Anyway.

Dave Taylor, who I caught up with earlier this year is one smart blogger. I actually met Dave at an internet gig run by Ken McCarthy. I was so impressed with Dave that I flew back to see him in his home town - and the time he spent with me was invaluable. He told me about Blogworld. I then told him about Avinash. The 2 caught up and voila, Avinash is on the speaking platform at Blogworld.

(By the way, for those page rank desparates, I’m going to find out just what the hell is happening (or happened) with the recent page rank fiasco and I’ll be posting once I’ve interviewed Dave and Avinash and some other smart bastards…more later)

I can’t wait. I haven’t heard from Dave yet as to how many folks are attending, but its a given it will be in the thousands. And there are some serious bloggers in attendance. The irascible Mark Cuban is making an appearance, Mike Arrington from Techcrunch, my good friend Marc Harty, Rich Jalichandra, the CEO of Technorati, GigaOm’s Om Malik, Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress and Australia’s own Des Walsh.

I actually owe an apology to another good internet mate - and that’s Paul Colligan. He blogged from the X10 Seminar way back in September 2004 and I had literally no idea what he was doing, never mind that it, as a medium, would take off like wild fire.

Stay tuned. I’ll be posting live from the event. I just hope the wireless holds up better than it did at Web 2.0.

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