Session
Ed Cone August 22nd, 2007
From Ed Cone’s blog:
Loren Feldman will not be leading a session on creating great web video at ConvergeSouth. The free conference is meant to be welcoming to all people, and volunteer coordinator Sue Polinsky and I feel that Loren’s recent video, and his responses to criticism of that video, would make him a lightning rod for controversy and a distraction from the session itself. We have offered him the opportunity to create some programming around the controversy for ConvergeSouth, and I hope he will consider doing so.
This is not a free-speech issue, this is a consequences of free-speech issue. I don’t know Loren personally, but I enjoy much of his work — including his parody of a celeb apology — and believe him that he’s not a racist, and believe as well he could make a real contribution here in Greensboro. If so, it won’t be at the front of the video session; we will announce a new session leader shortly.
Ed Cone is a co-volunteer-administrator for ConvergeSouth.