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You know what Las Vegas needs as a show? Eurovision!

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Over on ESC Insight, I’ve an editorial on something that I thought about while at Vegas for Blog World Expo, specifically after being invited to attend Cirque du Soleil’s fantastic “O” show. As much as Las Vegas is known for the Casinos and gambling, it’s also known for great shows, mixing in theatrics, music, comedy, dance and all round entertainment. Putting aside the Only in Vegas shows (such as “O”, which needs a specially constructed aquatic theatre), you’ve a huge number of shows that sell on the simple fact that they are a show in Vegas. While people will specifically

Personal thoughts on this year’s Blog World Expo

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As I’ve mentioned before, I couldn’t make the August ‘blog conference in Las Vegas,’ namely Tim Bourquin’s New Media Expo, due to commitments for the Edinburgh Fringe, but the second year of Rick Calvert’s Blog World Expo was on my radar as a potential gig to go to. Thanks to some work comissioned to report on the conference, I was all set for a lightning trip to Las Vegas. Flying out on Friday morning from Edinburgh, returning from the Nevada city on the Monday afternoon left little time for the body clock to get remotely close to the right time-zone

I’ll Be At BlogWorld Expo Next Weekend… Will You?

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Not quite a last minute decision, as I’ve been keeping an eye on flights and everything else surrounding next weekend’s BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, but over the weekend I booked the flight tickets from Edinburgh to the city of a billion lights… which were all paid for by people loosing at Blackjack. Anyway, the plan is pretty simple. I’ll be landing at 8pm on Friday (local time) and heading to the opening night party at The Mirage, hitting the conference floor all day Saturday and Sunday, and then flying back to Scotland from Monday afternoon. In terms of things

The New Media Expo vs The Edinburgh Fringe (No Contest Really)

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Rather graciously, David Peck wonders where all the cool kids were at last month’s New Media Expo in Las Vegas – for some strange reason he includes me in that list. The simple answer, as anyone here should realise, is that the Edinburgh Fringe took priority (more on the Fringe shortly). It’s one of the major events that I cover each year and allows me to reach out to a huge range of people, many of whom aren’t in our little bubble. The second that I saw the dates last year, I knew that I wasn’t going to be at