world knowledge forum

So here I am at the World Knowledge Forum, in a skirt and heels, listening to people talk about the recession and social influence marketing and fundamental laws of business and other stuff that makes my eyes glaze over.

The most fun I had was actually in the social influence marketing forum, where the founder of Twitter, some hotshot from RIM (company that made BlackBerry), and the CEO of NCSoft (creators of Lineage and Aion) talked about new forms of marketing using social networks. It seemed like stuff that would seem pretty obvious if anyone took the time to sit down and think about the concept for a decent amount of time, but at least I could follow the discussion without falling asleep. Biz Stone, the Twitter guy, seemed pretty cool - I was expecting a douchebag like Mike Zuckerberg but Stone managed to come across as a pretty laidback guy with a sense of humor.

I had a moment of complete dorkiness when the moderator mentioned how NCSoft made "the famous 'morg' Lineage." I wanted to jump up and be like, it's not morg, you moron. It's MMORPG. Pronounced muh-mor-pug. Duh.

Anyway, it's interesting being surrounded by all these people that actually know stuff about the recession and finances and the economy and other stuff with a lot of numbers. Everything I know comes from This American Life.