Archive for March, 2008

AdTech Keynote: What The Past Five Years Can Teach Us

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Hi, friends. Yes, we really are doing this again. I have 17 sessions to cover over the next three days (assuming I hit all the keynotes). My eyes are already welling up with tears. And even worse, the closest Starbucks is still too far to walk to in heels. Somebody hates me and I’m pretty sure it’s Susan.

Despite my non-caffeinatedness, it’s time for this morning’s keynote. On stage, Lynne Johnson (FastCompany.com) is set to interview keynote speaker Brian McAndrews (aQuantive, Inc) on one of the coolest navy blue couches I’ve ever seen. That’s how you know this is an advertising conference – the sets totally rock. I wonder if that blue couch and the accompanying orange chairs would fit in our rental car? They’d look wicked sweet in my apartment.

Drew Ianni starts with some opening remarks and making San Jose vs. San Francisco jokes that I don’t understand. Drew says he’s from the 408. Or something. Other people laughed so I did too (I already feel inferior because I don’t have a blackberry. I don’t want to feel totally out of the loop). Thankfully, he moves on to some Ad:Tech housekeeping and says Ad:Tech is about how digital is transforming marketing communications. It’s given me a job for one thing. He also talks about the upcoming Ad:Tech awards and how there will be free booze. People laugh again and this time I can comfortably join in. I, too, understand the humor in free booze.

Drew welcomes the marketing maelstrom. Luckily, Drew defined “maelstrom

Hiatus?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

“I am Evolving.”

Well, I figured I should explain myself before I go on and on with my daily post.

It seems like I’m losing all my readers. I know I have the few rich and famous who always come by and comment and then I have a few who comment every now and then but it seems like I’ve lost them all and I’m not going to just go back out and get a bunch of readers by being active. Because I just don’t care that much anymore. Plus, I don’t produce as fast as I used to and I don’t produce things that people relatively relate to. Most of this community relates to love, lust, and sorrow and I don’t exactly want to produce that anymore as of the moment. I think we all know that I only produce on my own terms usually.

I think I’m becoming less of a writer and I don’t know why. But, I will write something if I deem it necessary. I have something up my sleeve that I’ve had for a while and got really close to doing it but I didn’t want to do it because it goes against the morally right in the majority of this democracy that we live in. But I’ll post it, sometime. I actually have to write it first. You get what I’m trying to say.

If you don’t know or didn’t read the journal it basically says in short: I’m not going to be around as much and goes more into detail of why. One main reason is health, then weight, then work, then other offline shit.

Other than that, it’s melancholic and humorous at times, I think. Melancholic merely i think i am an effective writer when i am depressed. Depression have often serve as a gasoline for my pen and/or my keyboard, or whatever. But, while I like my works to be melancholic and humorous at times I also like to bring reality and truth to them. I sometimes like to bring harsh and blunt truth.

Hiatus? NO. I am just evolving. http://khalelian.blogspot.com/atom.xml

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Friday, March 28th, 2008

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