{"id":416,"date":"2009-08-21T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-08-21T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T19:22:40","slug":"gnomedex-9-0-kicks-off-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Gnomedex 9.0 Kicks Off in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnomedex.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gnomedex 9.o<\/a> kicked off last night in Seattle with the usual cocktail reception at <a title=\"Bell Harbor\" href=\"http:\/\/bellharbor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bell harbor<\/a>.\u00a0 This year, the theme is &#8220;Human Circuitry &#8211; A technology Conference of Influence and Inspiration.&#8221;\u00a0 This morning the actual conference\u00a0began with &#8220;The Art of the Interview&#8221; by Warren Etheredge of <a title=\"Warren Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewarrenreport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Warren Report<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0To boil a fun and informative presentaiton down to it&#8217;s core three concepts: get their attention,\u00a0win their trust, and earn their respect.\u00a0 The Keynote speakers were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbrogan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Brogan<\/a> and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Trust Agent\" src=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/gnomedex\/Chris_TrustAgent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><a title=\"Julien\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/julien\" target=\"_blank\">Julien Smith<\/a> discussing concepts from their new book release &#8220;<a title=\"Trust Agents Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trust-Agents-Influence-Improve-Reputation\/dp\/0470743085\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1250880380&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Trust Agents<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 It was a fast moving and entertaining presentation about using the web to build influence, improve reputation and earn trust.\u00a0 <a title=\"Chris Brogan Notes\" href=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/gnomedex\/GnomeNotes.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">My notes can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0Following the keynote was another interesting presentation by <a title=\"Bad Astronomy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Plait<\/a> about being an active skeptic.\u00a0 In the fast moving world of the web, it&#8217;s more important than ever to be an active skeptic and question things.\u00a0 <a title=\"Phil Plait Notes\" href=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/gnomedex\/GnomeNotes_PhilPlait.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">My notes can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 Next up?\u00a0 <a title=\"Health Activator\" href=\"http:\/\/healthactivator.com\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Peterson<\/a> discussing life extension.\u00a0 How do we slow the aging process and stay healthy longer?\u00a0 There were a lot of concepts in this presentation about getting a baseline on your health,\u00a0maintaining and\u00a0improving it, supplement use, etc.\u00a0 \u00a0I didn&#8217;t walk away with anything too ground breaking other than that I really need to drive toward living a healthier lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost lunch time, so we are about a quarter of the way through the two day conference.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a great event so far and there is a lot of interesting content coming down the pipe,\u00a0so I look forward to having a full head by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Gnomedex Audience\" src=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/gnomedex\/gnomedex_audience.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gnomedex 9.o kicked off last night in Seattle with the usual cocktail reception at Bell harbor.\u00a0 This year, the theme is &#8220;Human Circuitry &#8211; 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