Hey Weird. I was just looking at all the O'Reilly conferences coming up, and noticed that they weren't having a Mac OS X Conference this year. Not that it means that O'Reilly conferences are slippin or anything. They've been adding conferences like crazy: Where 2.0, Web 2.0, Emerging Telephony... So don't go there. O'Reilly conferences? Crazy successful!
But then on their conference archives page, the most recent Mac OS X Conference they list, is the 2003 one. One did happen in 2004. Anyway, none of this is that big of a deal, but I wonder the reason for the change. There are lots of reasons not have a conference. Sure, it could be lack of attendees (doubt it), or scheduling problems (doubt it). But I wonder if it's just more strategic. I wonder if O'Reilly Media is seeing a role for itself mostly in covering things that don't get covered so well elsewhere, and Mac stuff isn't as wanting as other stuff? Just thinkin. I love Tim O'Reilly's Perl-is-so-popular-but-nobody-talks-about-it story in the NerdTV interview (it's free people, check it out). It demonstrates not only his ability to distill trends from lots of noise, but how his company can also go on to become advocates for things that don't get the proportional attention they have coming to them. Anyway, Macs... Yeah. They don't have an O'Reilly conference this year.  ¶ 8:38 AM