LeWeb3 shit storm at RunningWithBulls.com

LeWeb3 shit storm

Published by bbt December 13th, 2006 in bernard, internet, irishblogs, runningwithbulls.com, tech

Tres bon, no?!
I would love to be a fly on the wall of tonights LeWeb3 par-tae (actually no not really, I have better things to do with my time this week) to see the aftermath of the “political day” at LeWeb.

Tom Raftery,and Tom Morris sum it up well.

The “scandal” seems to be that Loic Le Meur, the organiser of the event, managed to piss all the attendees right-off by getting none other than Shimon Peres and François Bayrou and Nicholas Sarkozy to stop by and do some -one-way fat-chewing with the non·plused techies.

Alot of people seem to be annoyed that the event was changed from LesBlogs from other years to LesWebs this year.

I can’t give too much insight as I was not there, so I will just let the others talk.

Ben Metcalfe Blog
Tom Morris (with links to other people too)
LeWeb3 search results from Technorati
Coverage on TechMeme
Video coverage of LesWebz3
LeWeb3 is political propaganda
Politicians such as Sarkozy have muscled in on ‘leweb3′

But I think the final word should be given to John Handelaar, commenting on Tom Raftery’s post:

John Handelaar Dec 12th, 2006 at 11:22 pm

For chrissakes don’t try asking him what he’s playing at. Only time I ever met him he was a drunken oaf bordering on violence - and that was in his official Six Apart capacity.

My crime was asking him whether his employers were ever going to do anything about MT’s utter lack of a plan for dealing with spam, other than continuing to bill their customers for software they never update.

My punishment was to have him step into my face and start walking further towards me, basically pushing me backwards across the room.

Lemeur doesn’t give a stuff about how much you paid. Once he’s got your money you can fuck off.

Priceless John. Priceless.

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1 Kermit Dec 15th, 2006 at 5:02 pm

Le Web 3 was a major disconnect on Day 2 thanks to Loic’s turn. As best as I can figure what happened was that he was chatting with his buddy Sarko, who’s chasing the Jewish vote in France ahead of the presidentials. So Sarko probably said: hey, I can get Shimon along if you want. Loic thinks ‘yeah — major coup, and we get news coverage,’ so he does. Then Sarko says ‘actually, I reckon I could pass by too, to pump up my web cred’. Loic, who’s already plumped for Sarko thinks that would be a great idea, too (at this point his judgement is completely off). Then, in a cack-handed attempt to “balance” the rhetoric he goes and asks Bayrou to come along too. And Bayrou says yes. Hell, Loic admitted as much, telling the crowd that Bayrou ‘was invited at the last minute’, and then introducing Sarko as the guy who ‘insisted on coming today and changing all his schedule to do so’. Bad miscalculation that is going to bite Loic’s reputation…..

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2 bbt Dec 15th, 2006 at 5:50 pm

Hi Kermit,

Hmm, you being French (or possibly just French based?) and I being Irish, I couldn’t disagree with you.
If thats actually what happened thats a pretty shit way to organise a conference.

What about this: the previous LesBlogs were organised out of Loic’s address book with his “mates”, 300-400 people…not a big deal.

Then he “hits paydirt” and gets 1300 (circa) people to come along to LeWeb…he manages to make a dogsdinner of it (i.e. blows it) completely.

In the middle he does indeed get his buddy Mister Sarkozy to drop along and boost, well both of them.

Hmm….if he does indeed have political ideas (as people keep saying he does), do you think the best way was to launch them at an International event, where less than 50% of the attendees were French? Or at least have it there as the closer, when people don’t give a shit anymore.

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c’est la vie :O