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Sat Sep 26,2009,
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Rain in Minneapolis
Posted by Hal
Quick update from the Minneapolis airport, where I’m waiting to board my flight to Los Angeles. So I’m coming from the Winnipeg author’s festival Thin Air, and I’m heading to Reality TV bootcamp, which is my weekend destination.
Winnipeg was really fun. A great bunch of people run this festival, and it really shows — everything is well organized and the vibe is a definitely a good one.
Yesterday I did four talks — 3 school talks to 9–12 graders, and a presentation at the downtown library for series called Big Ideas which saw me explaining the “big idea” of peep culture. The school presentations were fun, and I’ve already gotten feedback by way of facebook and email from a few students, a good sign!
Last night me and the poet Christian Bok (pronounced book because the o has two little dots over it) went along to the Thin Air/McNally Robinson event featuring sci fi writer Robert Sawyer live in person introducing and presiding over the launch of the ABC show based on his novel Flash Forward. (Premise, everyone passes out for two minutes and has a vision of their life 6 months ahead.) The show was fun. But the best thing was Sawyer’s commentary when the commercials were on. It was like watching the DVD version of the show with special feature — author patter.
This morning, I did a breakfast talk for business folks. The topic was privacy and social media. I enjoyed doing the presentation (even though I had to get up at 6 am). It was a chance to try out some new material and to speak to a different audience than the literary crowd. Good questions and discussion, I would have liked to find out more about what the people in the audience thought about my ideas regarding, specifically, my assertion that we need to start helping people to understand that in the age of peep, privacy is a commodity. But we could only scratch the surface as I was due at the airport to catch the 11:40 flight I’m waiting to get on. So it’s off to California to an undisclosed surprise location, site of the mysterious Reality TV Boot Camp weekend. More on that as soon as I’ve got something to share. In the meantime, it’s raining in Minneapolis.
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Hey, I’m Hal Niedzviecki. I’m a writer/thinker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my wife and daughter. Up till now I’ve always considered myself a private person. But at the same time I’m fascinated by people who effortlessly open themselves up to the whole world. So I’ve… more...
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