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By: Medialoper » Press Room? I Said Rest Room!

Medialoper » Press Room? I Said Rest Room! — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:42:15 +0000

[...] ines D Cell Batteries On the last day of the 2005 conference renowned CSS Guru Eric Meyer was called to task for daring to take photos of his friends without proper press credentials [...]

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:04:24 +0000

Maybe they saw all the University folks having too much fun and decided they needed to add another layer of useless bureaucracy to make us feel at home…

By: Ian Lloyd

Ian Lloyd — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:51:04 +0000

Of course, it’s just a replacement for a previous year’s absurdity, namely: You can’t charge your laptop off the convention centre’s supply. Damn near caused a riot. Well, maybe a virtual riot involving broken punctuation and bloody forward slashes and such like.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:04:21 +0000

If anyone can walk up an get a “Press Tag’ then what is the point of having them? I call Shenanigans!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:58:14 +0000

“When the going gets weird the weird turn pro” – Hunter S. Thompson

By: Block Sheep

Block Sheep — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:31:59 +0000

I applaud your response; it makes me feel good to know that others conduct themselves the same way I do.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:15:38 +0000

That’s just pointless. Everything is getting so bureaucratic over nothing. At least it made for good story =)

By: Neill Harmer

Neill Harmer — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:40:52 +0000

Well if there is a brightside…at least you did not have to PAY for the ability to take pictures. I have been to a car show that you had to pay for the priveledge. It was only a few bucks, but the idea was absurd.

By: Lachlan Hunt

Lachlan Hunt — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:56:47 +0000

Did you take a photo of this tag? Will we be seeing more photos of cameras?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:45:43 +0000

Doesn’t the absurdity begin with the question, “Do you have a press tag?”

Isn’t that just new-speak for, “Have you signed our legal agreement which gives us the rights to any photos you take?”

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:50:00 +0000

I’ve always said (since five seconds ago, to myself) that the world would be a better place if more people appreciated the absurd. Better than berating the bleating, I suppose. With a porpoise.

By: Michael Kjeldsen

Michael Kjeldsen — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:47:59 +0000

Funny :-D

Love your way of writing…

By: Pete F.

Pete F. — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:45:36 +0000

” Also, I have official authorization to take pictures of people taking pictures with their own personal non-tagged cameras.”

Was she checking everybody’s phones too? Camera handsets are so prolific now — and getting higher res every month it would seem — surely they should just be issuing everyone with a tag along with their standard conference badges and save themselves (and paying, enthusiastic attendees) some grief?

Sounds like SxSW could do with a Sensibility speaker or two, to compliment the Usability and Accessibility folks…

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:14:29 +0000

That is absurd. Had they not seen the large number of people taking pictures in the hallway up to that point?