The tickets have been purchased, so it’s official. Forbes names me a “web disruptor” and has invited me to their Internet Leadership Forum (conference) in Mexico the first weekend in May. I’m a Forbes guest (w00t!) and will be speaking on their panel, “The Web Disrupters” with three others, including Robert Scoble. My .pdf agenda describes it as, “The Web has provided a platform for citizen journalists and Web personalities to emerge, disrupting established distribution patterns for entertainment, media and commentary. A panel of top Web Disrupters discusses what’s new and what’s next for Web 2.0.”
They are taking very good care of me, and to say that I’m surprised to be in this is an understatement. Looking over the agenda, it’s all Editor-in-Chief of this, CEO of that, and lotsa guys. I am, indeed, thrilled. The underlying thought for me right now is, if you’d asked me what my future looked like at 15, sleeping under overpasses and being pissed off that I had to pray in soup kitchens to get food, I would have told you with the most belligerent gutter punk sneer that I didn’t *have* a future. I am in a bit of a state of disbelief that this is even happening, that yes, this is reality, and it becomes more wonderful and extreme at every turn. Though in these contexts, all the wonderful hold the extreme.
Anyway, talk about ‘fish out of water’. I’ll definitely be blogging and vlogging the whole thing, by the grace of Mexican wifi.
