TAM 2012 Las Vegas

zooterkin said:
Conversely, next to BUZZ0, anyone else looks appealing.
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The BUZZ0 effect is very strong; and as with homeopathy, works a bit in reverse. Even unseen, his mere diluted presence in the South Point ups everyone else's sexiness. If he's in a separate hotel in Vegas, the effect is even more pronounced.
 
I assume Sunday morning will be the papers? It doesn't specifically say this, but it's always been this way.

Ray, are you here? :)
 
BUZZ0 is hilarious. I can't wait to see what antics he'll think up this time. I wonder if he'll sit around talking about his penis again.
 
Got an e-mail in the inbox of what will happen, looks like interesting stuff. I'm sure some of it will end up mp3-files on the Internet eventually.
 
If you don't use Twitter at all, this won't be all that interesting. Thank you, nothing to see here, move along.

For those of you who DO use Twitter, check out the page I created for TAM 2012 on a (relatively) new service called Lanyrd:

http://lanyrd.com/2012/tam2012/

Lanyrd is a social conference directory built as an adjunct to Twitter. The idea is it lets the attendees crowdsource the best information about a conference on a free site and share it. It includes lists of staff, guests and attendees, the schedule and aggregation of coverage about the event.

A few of key features that should be handy:

* Everything you need to live-Tweet the event is right there including the hashtag and the Twitter handles of all the speakers
* Mark that you are attending and your Twitter followers who also use Lanyrd will get a notification of that
* At past TAMs we've had to create special calendars to list third-party events like meetups, on Lanyrd we can put these right on the schedule all in one place
* Lanyrd provides another way (besides this forum) to aggregate links to photos, videos and blogs about the show.

I'll have a blog post up on skeptools tomorrow with more details. I've also entered the other 2012 skeptic events on Lanyrd, you can see them all here:

http://lanyrd.com/guides/skepticism/
 
So, me and Tamazon are carpooling. Planning to kidnap Rustypouch along the way *sssshhhhh don't tell HIM*!! Anyone else like to meet us in Calgary for the road trip? We figure the $150 - 200 in gas each will be wayyyy cheaper than flying! We are taking off the 10th from Calgary and taking shifts driving. Then we will head back the Monday. 20 hours there, 20 hours back! Road Trip!!
 
krelnik said:
For those of you who DO use Twitter, check out the page I created for TAM 2012 on a (relatively) new service called Lanyrd:

http://lanyrd.com/2012/tam2012/
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I didn't have time right now to poke around too much on there, but is there any functionality that would be a good replacement for the GroupTweet that we've been using the past few years?
 
Eos of the Eons said:
So, me and Tamazon are carpooling. Planning to kidnap Rustypouch along the way *sssshhhhh don't tell HIM*!! Anyone else like to meet us in Calgary for the road trip? We figure the $150 - 200 in gas each will be wayyyy cheaper than flying! We are taking off the 10th from Calgary and taking shifts driving. Then we will head back the Monday. 20 hours there, 20 hours back! Road Trip!!
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Holy crap, that's one hell of a road trip... and across Montana and Utah, how exciting. ;)
 
Dicon said:
I didn't have time right now to poke around too much on there, but is there any functionality that would be a good replacement for the GroupTweet that we've been using the past few years?
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Looks interesting, though I also haven't yet worked out what it can actually do. The odd thing is that I was at QEDCon, and don't recall it being mentioned at all, although both this year's and last are on there. I was following the #QEDCon hashtag, and I'm not sure what Lanyrd would have added. It's useful to have all the contact details in one place, though.

They did have a Twitter wall at QEDCon; I don't remember there being one at TAM9. Any plans for one this year?
 
Dicon said:
I didn't have time right now to poke around too much on there, but is there any functionality that would be a good replacement for the GroupTweet that we've been using the past few years?
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No, not as far as I know. If people mark themselves as attending, you could find the Twitter IDs of other people you might want to tweet at regarding the show, but there's no real communication feature in the site. It's assumed you're using Twitter for that.

We could definitely use it as an adjunct. For instance you could look for folks who are attending on Lanyrd but who haven't followed @TAMinfo yet, and @ them to clue them in to the group tweet thing.
 
zooterkin said:
They did have a Twitter wall at QEDCon; I don't remember there being one at TAM9. Any plans for one this year?
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That's a great idea, I would like to do some more digital things at TAM. We're always constrained by cost though, so we'll have to figure out a way to do it for free or cheap.

Where was the Twitter wall at QEDcon - out in the hall, or actually in the rooms with the programming? I can see advantages to either one. (Perhaps we could do both to some degree).
 
krelnik said:
That's a great idea, I would like to do some more digital things at TAM. We're always constrained by cost though, so we'll have to figure out a way to do it for free or cheap.

Where was the Twitter wall at QEDcon - out in the hall, or actually in the rooms with the programming? I can see advantages to either one. (Perhaps we could do both to some degree).
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I think it moved around; when I saw it, it was in the hotel bar but I don't know if it was there all the time.
 
If you buy him a beer, Scrut will read all tweets out loud in real time.
 
Anyone feel like road trippin' Fear and Loathing style from Los Angeles? All we need is a convertible, mescaline, ether, acid, marijuana and a 'can do' attitude. Let me know if your interested. :D
 
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