TechEd '05 Commenced - where are the v-celebs?
Well, it's 0817 and I'm already registered at Teched and hooked up to the wlan. This rare occasion of early-birdness was not by my free will, but more an upside of the construction-guys powering up the jackhammer outside my hotel window at 0700hrs (anything before eight o'clock is in military time in my world). Anyways I'm good to go!
Last night we went for a boatride with dinner with the norwegian crowd. Speakers Mark Bower and Jessica Gruber of Microsoft UK came along. We had a lot of fun, but covered some serious topics aswell. Most importantly we finally put a name on the phenomenon: What do you call the "geek-celebs"? You know the guys that gets the best ratings at teched, drawing the most people and are pretty close to autographing last years orange bag for the most dedicated of nerds:
Term derived from "vertical-celebrities" and rewritten in the Microsoft in-house consultant email-style to reflect their status as close to, or inside the mothership.
Finally we can differentiate between "Hey! Look! A celeb" (someone has spotted David Beckam) and "Hey! Look! A v-celeb!" (someone has spotted Don Box)
Happy conferencing!