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Day 1 in Banff - nextMEDIA Conference June 6, 2008

Yesterday I spent the day driving up to Banff for the nextMEDIA conference with Dario - and when I say all day I really do mean all day, we spent at least 10 hours in the car driving up here.  But it was worth it, BC is beautiful, actually that word does not describe it, breathtaking is a far better adjective.  The only downside of the drive, was the constant rain.  And!!! I finally got to see the Rockies from below 10,000 feet.  They are simply awesome - although I was a bit disappointed that there wasn’t a sign saying that we’d entered the mountain range.  I guess that the big swath of mountains should have been enough of a hint though.

I noticed something on the drive up here.  People in BC are really bad at naming things.  Sometimes they were just boring, used or kinda stupid and other times I’m not quite sure how they missed the innuendo that went along with their name.  We had The Golden Rim, Skunk Cabbage Trail - OK I seem to have forgotten most of them after a nice full nights sleep - but, I’ll catch and write them down on the way down so that I can update this.  Although, my favorite was a billboard for a medieval theme park - the sign read “2 Adventures, 1 Stop”.  Dario and I spent a good 5 min giggling over that one (if you don’t know what I’m referring to, I will not submit you to it, but it involves a couple of girls and a cup).

I’ll update this post tonight once the days festivitites have ceased.   I now must find some coffee.

nextMEDIA Conference in Banff Alberta June 4, 2008

So I’m currently putting off packing for my trip to Banff tomorrow. I’m super excited about going, it should be really good. I’m going to the nextMEDIA Future of Digital Content conference for work. Tomorrow Dario and I get to drive up there - not really looking forward to the drive though it’s at least 9 hours.

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I do have to call nextMEDIA out on something though. When I was getting some info to put in this post, I wanted to include an image of their logo or pics from past events. So logically, I go to their press section and see that they have a section dedicated to Press Materials. I go to the page however and there is nothing. Well nothing isn’t quite accurate. They have a description of the downloadable banners that should be available to me. Really in my opinion, it is worse to have it not working than not to have it at all. So you can blame them for not having any pretty pics in this post.

OK so mini rant over. I am still super excited about going and am expecting that I’ll have a great time.  I’ve not been to Banff since I was a kid on a road trip with my Dad.  I’m looking forward to seeing the awesome Canadian wilderness.  Banff is beautiful and it’ll be a nice change from the city - even if it is a working trip.

I know that I’ll be seeing some great friends up there and meeting a whole bunch of cool new people. Along with learning a ton of new things in new media. I’ll update the blog when I get back and upload some pics from the trip for those of you who don’t get to go:)