{"id":18489,"date":"2010-07-13T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18489"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:04:14","slug":"your-virtual-readercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/13\/your-virtual-readercon\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Virtual Readercon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was too busy <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/scottedelman\">tweeting<\/a> and shooting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/scottedelman\">video<\/a> at Readercon to take my usual number of photos. What few I managed to snap can be seen over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157624357721299\/\">flicker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now I find I&#8217;m far too busy and tired to write up an account of the weekend. So for now, let this picture of me with Junot D&#237;az stand in for all the fun I had.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/JunotDiazReadercon2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/JunotDiazReadercon2010-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"JunotDiazReadercon2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/JunotDiazReadercon2010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/JunotDiazReadercon2010.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And for those of you who wish you could have been there, you can be. Sort of.  Here are four more excerpts from Readercon panels I attended.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First come two pieces of  &#8220;True Tales of Great Editing&#8221;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zsbJHN7YE88&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zsbJHN7YE88&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XJWITYcIPoo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XJWITYcIPoo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Followed by two from &#8220;The Short Fiction of Theodore Sturgeon&#8221;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5iSjQX2g5G0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5iSjQX2g5G0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/toRDcqdwy8U&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/toRDcqdwy8U&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Now do you see why you should have been there? And why you should do your best to get there next year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was too busy tweeting and shooting video at Readercon to take my usual number of photos. What few I managed to snap can be seen over at flicker. And now I find I&#8217;m far too busy and tired to write up an account of the weekend. 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