10 Tips for Your Blogging Success: Socrates Gets Riled Up at Podcamp Toronto (part 2)
Channel: Singularity Weblog
Date: 2012-02-29

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Last Sunday I spoke at Podcamp Toronto.

Since I never considered myself to be a successful blogger or podcaster, I wanted to simply introduce people to the concept and ideas behind the technological singularity and transhumanism.

That was the plan. But few things get me riled up more than ignorance posing as true knowledge.

So, given that many of the sessions I attended put forward information which I found to be not merely wrong, but outright detrimental for those who chose to follow it, I had no option but to step up to the plate and set the record straight.

Looking at the video now, I regret to admit that my impassioned impromptu presentation may have been a bit too long, too frank and too emotional to be as good as I wanted it to be. But it was genuinely authentic and that is one quality that is harder to learn than good public speaking...