20
Feb
2011

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of February 13th

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writingA total of 43 published this week.

FunJug.com

SeanPAune.com

TechnoBuffalo.com

13
Feb
2011

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of February 6th

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writingA total of 48 published this week, and back up the number goes.

FunJug.com

SeanPAune.com

TechnoBuffalo.com

6
Feb
2011

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of January 30th

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writingA total of 32 published this week, the smallest week in quite some time.

FunJug.com

SeanPAune.com

TechnoBuffalo.com

30
Jan
2011

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of January 23rd

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writingA total of 45 published this week … wow, I’m slowing down in my old age.

FunJug.com

SeanPAune.com

TechnoBuffalo.com

23
Jan
2011

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of January 16th

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writingA total of 50 published again this week.  Would you believe I’m still catching up on CES stuff?

FunJug.com

SeanPAune.com

TechnoBuffalo.com

16
Jan
2011

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of January 9th

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writingA total of 54 published again this week.  CES was still kicking my ass.

FunJug.com

SeanPAune.com

TechnoBuffalo.com

9
Jan
2011

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of January 2nd

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writingA total of 54 published this week.  CES kicked my ass.

FunJug.com

RememberingChristmas.com

SeanPAune.com

TechnoBuffalo.com

8
Jan
2011

The Worst Moment Of CES? That Damned Magician

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I have spent the majority of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the blogger’s workroom in the south hall.  (Meeting room S228 REPRESENT!)  However, there has been one major drawback … Johnny Ace Palmer.

Verizon has been kind enough to sponsor the blogger workroom, outfitting us with Internet, printers, power sources (even if stupidly placed under tableclothed tables), coffee, a lounge area and so on.  However, there has been a price to pay.  A price that doesn’t come from your wallet, but instead from your sanity.

Verizon is running demos for 3D TV services (hence the glasses you see in the picture) and its new umi Telepresnece product that allows 1080p video calls.  To demo this service they have been making calls to a sleight of hand magician named Johnny Ace Palmer out in Los Angeles.

About every 10 or 15 minutes someone asks for a demo of the service, and I am treated to another slew of Mr. Palmer’s dime store bantar and feats of “magic”.  At first it was ignorable, but after three days of this … I have pondered taking my own life.

I have nothing against, low-end magic tricks, more power to them, but imagine being trapped with one for days on end.

The thing is, I don’t blame Mr. Palmer, I blame Verizon.  This is a work environment, a place where people come to meet deadlines, write and think, we don’t need to be constantly distracted by the chatter of someone doing “tricks”.

The response in the room has been pretty much universal disdain, with myself and two others contemplating asking for a demo just so we could flip off Mr. Palmer, or maybe go so far as mooning him.

The show is over tomorrow, but somehow I think Mr. Palmer will come home with me in my nightmares.

Damn you, Verizon.

7
Jan
2011

CES – The Blogger Killer

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I … hurt in so many places.

CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is in full effect here in Las Vegas, and I can’t even begin to describe what a wonderful, challenging and fulfilling event this has been thus far.  We have three days left, and I can already easily declare this as the highlight of my professional writing career.

It isn’t just the nifty new gadgets I’m seeing, but the fact that the team at TechnoBuffalo has been, hands down, the best team I have ever worked with on a project.  The energy flowing between us is amazing, and we are so incredibly pumped that content we are turning out that I’m sure other people are getting fed up with seeing us grinning from ear to ear.

The nights are long, the legs are in pain, sleep is next to none … and we love it.  Every evening we head back to our rooms, promising one another that tonight is the night we get a little extra sleep, but yet here it is 2 AM and I just had the following exchange via e-mail with company president Jonathan Rettinger:

Jon – “Why aren’t we sleeping?”

Me – “Because we’re morons.”

Jon – “Fact.”

Okay, perhaps we aren’t exactly pithy, but come on, we’re punch drunk tired.

Even though we are in the midst of what is probably the most demanding week I have ever had in my writing career, we love it, and we can’t stop talking about our concepts for CES 2012.  We have learned so much this year on how we can better accomplish our goals here, and we are anxious to implement them, but we sadly will have to wait for the show to roll around again.

Darn it.

The entire team has been amazing and is turning in some of the bes coverage possible.  Please, if you are looking for any coverage of the show, stop by and check out our CES 2011 news, you won’t be disappointed.

Now, just one more article before bed …

2
Jan
2011

Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of December 26th

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writingA total of 31 published this week.  Yay holidays!

FunJug.com

RememberingChristmas.com

SeanPAune.com

TechnoBuffalo.com

30
Dec
2010

What Is CES?

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“What is CES?”

I have been getting this question a lot as of late as I prepare to head off to the event next week. CES is the abbreviation or the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It is a trade show that covers all of the Las Vegas Convention Center and spills over into several of the casinos. For four days a year the electronics companies descend on Vegas and show off all of their wares for the upcoming year, announce new services and basically make you drool all over yourself with all of the pretty new gadgets.

The show officially runs next Thursday through Sunday, but those of us in the press get in earlier in the week for press briefings, keynote speeches, preview events and so on.  I will actually be getting into town Monday afternoon and start things off bright and early on Tuesday morning.  From there on out its a rocket sled ride until I leave the following Monday.

While I have attended many trade shows over the years, most notably the International Toy Fair in New York City, this does sound like the largest I will have ever attended clocking in at 1.8 million square feet of display space.  Comfy shoes will definitely be in order.

I’ll be covering the show for TechnoBuffalo.com, so you can follow all of my posts over there, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some thoughts don’t spill over to here also.

27
Dec
2010

How Bloggers Prep For A Trip

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writingAs long time readers of this blog know, I pride myself that I’ve blogged every day since March 12, 2005. Seeing as I don’t leave town very often this has been a fairly easy process, but what do you do when you have to go on a trip you know will be crazy busy?

I’m leaving on Sunday, Jan. 2nd for Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, and won’t be back until Tuesday, Jan. 11th.  A lot of bloggers who give tips on prepping for a trip say to advance write posts, and that you should always have a week’s worth of posts in your drafts, ready to go.  The problem is on a personal blog is that feels a bit like cheating to me.  Just because I post on a day doesn’t feel like I actually blogged that day to me.  I’ve done it once or twice in the history of this site, but I’ve never thrilled to it.

In the case of this trip I will be writing until my fingers are numb for TechnoBuffalo, so the idea of coming back to room each night to write a post for this site is less than appealing.  With this in mind, sadly, I’m going to prep some advanced posts just to be safe, but I would much prefer write fresh content each day.

The solution for every blogger will of course differ with what makes them comfortable, but sometimes you don’t have any choice but to break out of your comfort zone.  I certainly don’t want to break a streak that is this close to hitting the six year mark, so out of my comfort zone I shall go.  Hopefully I won’t have to use those backup posts, but you just never know how things are going to shake out when you’re on a business trip.

And to the umpteen people who keep wishing me fun in Vegas … HAH!  If you could see my schedule you’d be wondering when I’m going to eat and sleep, let alone have “fun”.

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