Comments on: Loic Lemeur: Betraying 1000 attendees for his own political ambitions?

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:24:00 +0000

Kael I dont find that reasonable, I do have more interest to use the results / experiences / etc (good and bad) to make better conferences for example. And I do not really intend to fire up a site with ‘linklove’ I do not know nor support in content.

By: kael

kael — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:19:00 +0000

Loïc Le Meur is definitely the moronic Sarkozy sucker.

How about launching a Google bombing based on the http://loiquejemeur.blogspot.com/ parody blog ?

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:00:00 +0000

looks like we have the first “victim”
http://blog.roam4free.ie/arrington-falls-out-with-sam-sethi-surprise-victim-of-leweb3/

By: Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:47:00 +0000

Trackback http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/12/13/cheer-and-loathing-at-le-web-3/

By: Parallèles

Parallèles — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:53:00 +0000

I’m sorry for you guys who have been taken hostages and frustrated of what could have been a great conference. But I’m sort of glad that the truth is out in the open now: I hope that Loïc’s partisanship and political agenda, the delusional way in which he had thought he could get away with using new medias to serve old politics will make it clear that he’s no expert but a fraud as far as blogging is concerned and, more importantly for us Frenchies, that he is in no way a representative of the our “blogosphère” as a whole. As matter of fact, he has become a wart on it. I think people should have become suspicious before the event when Loïc started feeding to news agency the idea that Le Web3 was a “Davos of the internet” of sorts. It was indeed…

Harsh words maybe, but he’s looked for them by putting himself at the center of the public sphere, in fact even trying to pose as its center of gravity.

By: Lara

Lara — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:44:00 +0000

Emotions aside. I think the most unprofessional part of the ‘programme changes’ was the fact that the organisers did not take into account the fact that attendees paid 300-500 euros expecting to receive smething quite different on Day 2. As they seem to have screwed up 50% of the conference – could we suggest a refund? Or an apology and a HUGE discount on the next conference? That would seem fair compensation…

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:08:00 +0000

Patrick, I am not sure if that actually is an answer by Loic himself. I’d rather expect what we can see – people close to him coming to his rescue and posting, and if I would expect to see something on his blog. Which he probably does not do at the moment because if doing without comments it would give flack as well as with.

We have to learn out of this, but why cant we learn without such hurtful experiences?

And for the people asking for more unconference style, which puts the people into the forground more than just sponsors, you might want to look at http://barcamp.org and the concept behind it.

Over the last year these barcamp conferences have proven to be much more inspiring and worth the time.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:27:00 +0000

Wow!!! Loic gets Angry!!! This is amazing! Techcrunch is a sponsor of Le Web and places an honest post about the conference, Loic doesn’t seem to be happy and starts to call names (scroll down please). I left a note where the interesting part starts :)

http://extension.fleck.com/?sh=56b8aad47c305f9d3f6b5b97bb79a594284129b5

By: Ivan Pope

Ivan Pope — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:59:00 +0000

Trackback http://blog.snipperoo.com/2006/12/unconferencing_.html

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:26:00 +0000

I agree with you that it was a very disappointing conference. There was no intimacy at all! Le Meur for president :(