Through a Systm newsletter, I found out about an international web design festival called cre824. Essentially, it is your normal tech convention with lots of speeches and seminars alongside a 24 hour website development contest with many teams. On the website, I found out that the guys from Diggnation, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, will be there for a special edition Diggnation podcast. Also, Shaun Inman, the creator of the amazing Mint will be making an appearance. The festival is November 17th-20th in Chattanooga, TN. I emailed Amber Mac to see if she knew what day(s) Kevin and Alex would be attending, since I can’t find their email addresses anywhere online. Hopefully, I won’t have much school work then and will be able to attend since Chattanooga is less than 2 hours away and a 2 day base pass is $20 (compared to $600 for all of the seminars and award shows). Even if I won’t be able to get to see any seminars with the regular admission, a picture with Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht (and perhaps Shaun Inman) will justify everything.
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The Diggnation podcast recording from the Cre824 festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee will take place at 10:30am on Friday the 18th of November.
Thanks for giving me the heads up David!
New pricing! $34.95 for all access pass.
Really? I just may have to get that.