Today's the last day of CES, and a good chunk of the press has left. That means the people who man the booths are left with no one to talk to except each other, making each desolate booth a sad tableau of loneliness. Don't worry, PR people. It's almost over.
CES is Winding Down: It's Getting Lonely Around Here
1:49 PM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By Adam Frucci
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Not knowing much about the challenges of covering such a thing, I'm glad it's over. The first few days we get blogging reports -- sometimes minute-by-minute -- of the keynotes, the big screens and the nifty cameras, Art Lebedev made a pretty big slpash. Then the coverage seems to tire of talking about the big screens and cameras and focuses more on the gimmicky stuff. Then we fall into a period where it's all about the little presenters and flash drives and somebody's new high-capacity SD card -- it's in this phase that the booth babes get coverage. Then we are where we are right now... a kind of sad, sweat-stained denoument, like inspecting your house on the morning after a really great party. I can't imagine what today must be like for Giz writers and editors -- do you just spend time at the bar, or stalking every drugstore in the viscinity for gel-cushion insoles? Pedicures, maybe?
What, no tumbleweeds?
Finally! Lets get on to Macworld!
Vonage has a booth??!?! I thought they were dead already...
Sounds like it's time for Gizmodo to head over to the Adult Video Convention in Vegas today.
Don't forget Frucci's breakdown. That may have gotten more hits than any other coverage. Watch out Gizmodo, I smell coup d'etat, or perhaps Frucci will break off and start his own blog. "Whining about technology."
Sorry, i just feel he deserves more shit for letting his conscience come before his duty.
Booth babes forever!! You'll be sad when robots replace booth babes.
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