PJNet

So I am miffed. Have been at the annual AEJMC conference in San Francisco, hoped to blog, but the San Francisco Marriott on Fourth Street is the most unfriendly blogging hotel that I have ever entered. You can get on the Internet in the lobby if you pay, but the rest of the conference rooms are barren. Of course, if the hotel wanted it could remedy that situation overnight. But this is a place that charges $4 for 15 minutes to check your email in the business center.

So here is a conference with a couple of thousand of folks and the hotel because of what is probably a nickel and dime mentality has made it nearly impossible to reach the outside world for the conference attendees. Hey, wake up this is San Francisco.

So I think that bloggers can remedy this situation. We need a site that lists and reviews the best connected and blogging friendly conference hotels and the worst. On a scale of one to 10 with 10 being the best, this place gets a flat out zero.

As one who has put on conferences here and here, I am always flabbergasted when they want to charge a couple thousand dollars to make just one conference room blogger friendly. I say identify these outrages so conference planners like me can use the information to make better hotel choices.

Sorry about the blogging hiatus, but now you know why.

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