Tikkabik

Now that I'm safely back at home, I have a few parting thoughts about my time spent in New York, and the conference that was Macworld CreativePro:

New York City is a wonderful place. Every time I go there I marvel at its scale and the fact it works at all. However, I'm usually happy to go home after about a week of it. I miss trees, and soil, and an absence of noise. I like to see starlight occasionally too. If I didn't have kids, though, it might be a different story.

If you've read bitter, negative shit about Macworld CreativePro, keep this in mind: Journalists can be utter shits. Many of us are well-adjusted, wonderful people -- people who I'm proud and happy to consider friends and colleagues. Others are bitter, hateful people who mistake vomiting bile and vitriol for Menckenian sarcasm. Those folks are poisonous, and I do what I can to distance myself from them.

It was a smaller show than last year, and I did hear some complaints about the foot traffic on the last day of the show, and of the attendance overall. But it seems that most of the vendors with whom I spoke were happy with the focus on creative professionals, felt that they had a more specific, qualified crowd to speak with, and liked the scale of the show. I liked the scale of the show too. I had a chance to walk around and meet with vendors who I wouldn't have been able to see otherwise. I got a chance to spend more time talking with people than I have in the past, too.

I've been to many Macworld expos in the past, and this was neither the largest nor the most voluminous for product news. It was different, however, and in this case, different was good. I hope they keep it up. I just don't want the show to return to Boston, however -- I'm much happier with it in New York, which, as far as I'm concerned, is where it belongs.