I'm not the only one not thrilled with the SIIA. Jeff Jarvis is all over them for charging the speakers to attend this weeks' Information Industry Summit.
Take, for example, this week’s SIIA conference in New York. I already bitched that these bozos wanted to charge me $500 to attend their full conference after speaking on their panel. The speakers are the content for these unevents, and to have the chutzpah to try to charge the content providers appalled me. I tried to drop out of the panel, but the guy who organized it — unpaid and paying to attend the event himself, the poor shmuck — would have been left holding the empty chair. So I’m doing it. But I’ll do it growling and fomenting revolt.
To me, this is just another example of the SIIA squeezing the little guys. Jeff writes more about Exploding the Conference Business which is an ambitious and honorable idea, but one that is likely tobe successful only in small, slow doses. As for the IIS, it usually is a great conference and I will be paying up to be there.
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