While most meeting planners hire high-profile speakers whose names will be a draw for attendees, might there be some circumstances where an anonymous speaker might be best? That was the case at Toorcon, a conference for hackers and security...

We have some new kids playing in the meetings blogosphere: Welcome to the Fabulous Spellos Brothers by James Spellos of Meeting U (I've been enjoying his e-newsletter for ages now) and his bro Peter; and to MeetingsBabble (isn't that a great name...

It seems we're headed that way, anyway. Check out this article about a guy who was taken out by security after being overheard speaking Tamil on his cellphone at the Seattle airport. And what about the two Orthodox Jews who caused a flight to be...

The New York Times has this story from a reporter who was on board the corporate jet that collided with the 737 that went down in Brazil last week, killing all on board. And then I think of those innocent girls in their Pennsylvania schoolhouse...

Sen. Tom Coburn is looking to cut wasteful spending—in government meetings, no less. According to ...

A few weeks ago, Cisco held its annual party. Nice, right? I'm sure it was, for those who got to it. It sounds like the planners didn't take traffic issues into account. From geek blogger Robert Scoble: ...

How's this for a frequent-flier perk: London man uses air miles for space trip. Yup, an obviously well-traveled Londoner will be aboard a Virgin Galactic suborbital flight in 2009. From the article...

Or, if you're on the staff side, how well does your manager manage you? There may be a big disconnect, according to a survey of 1,854 U.S. workers by Rasmussen Reports LLC that I read about on ASAE's Acronym blog. While 92 percent of the managers...

In the seemingly never-ending saga of airport security measures, TSA today announced that, as of tomorrow, you can bring "travel-sized" toiletries on board, along with liquids you buy at the gate (Link is here). You do have to put your mini...