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When you bid farewell, at the end of the TED conference in Monterey this week, don't automatically gush about next year's event, and how you hope to meet again then. Not everybody made the cut. TED — a gathering of tech and media execs with a sprinkling of artists and scientists to add cachet — sold out for 2008 within a week. Despite putting up the price to $6,000. "They don't want my money!" complains one peeved TED devotee. My bet: he's not so peeved to lobby for one of the wait-list places. Later, why TED, which covers technology, entertainment and design, is one of the few conferences that attendees actually seem to enjoy.
A club that won't have you
When you bid farewell, at the end of the TED conference in Monterey this week, don't automatically gush about next year's event, and how you hope to meet again then. Not everybody made the cut. TED — a gathering of tech and media execs with a sprinkling of artists and scientists to add cachet — sold out for 2008 within a week. Despite putting up the price to $6,000. "They don't want my money!" complains one peeved TED devotee. My bet: he's not so peeved to lobby for one of the wait-list places. Later, why TED, which covers technology, entertainment and design, is one of the few conferences that attendees actually seem to enjoy.
1:08 PM on Tue Mar 6 2007
By Nick Denton
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