Get a life. I don't know about you, but I got into networking because it was fascinating and often dangerous fun to connect with other heads out there. Nothing was predigested, sanitized, filtered, packaged, cut and dried. If so, I'm going back to smoke signals. I recently travelled to San Antonio to speak about the Internet at a Gartner Group conference.
Some ad agency ought to get an award.
An overtly tree-hugger pitch would be used for target practice down here, I thought. But the complex connotations of this slogan probably have Billy Joe Bob et al tossing those empties into the back of the 4X4 and not along the Interstate. I came away with a new respect for the Lone Star State. But what does this have to do with the conference, you may ask. Unfortunately, quite a lot.