{"id":148,"date":"2007-05-31T21:47:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2007\/06\/01\/Idol+Geek+Edition"},"modified":"2007-05-31T21:47:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T03:47:18","slug":"idol-geek-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/31\/idol-geek-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Idol &#8211; Geek Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, I am competing in Speaker Idol at TechEd 2007 in Orlando, Florida. What is Speaker Idol? Think Idol &#8211; Geek Edition. There will be twelve geeks taking the stage to sing and strut their stuff.* The Honourable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectualhedonism.com\/\">Carl Franklin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campbellassociates.ca\/\">Richard Campbell<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotnetrocks.com\/\">.NET Rocks<\/a> fame will be hosting. We&#8217;ve each got 5 minutes to present on a technical topic of our choice. The top prize is a highly-coveted speaker slot at TechEd 2008. The competition should be a lot of fun and is being broadcast from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualteched.com\/\">Virtual TechEd<\/a> stage. So even if you&#8217;re not there, you can cheer me on from the comfort of your own office. I&#8217;ll post links for the competition once they&#8217;re available.<\/p>\n<p>* I can make no guarantees that I will or will not sing. You&#8217;ll have to tune in and find out. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Open-mouthed\" src=\"http:\/\/messenger.msn.com\/MMM2006-04-19_17.00\/Resource\/emoticons\/teeth_smile.gif\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, I am competing in Speaker Idol at TechEd 2007 in Orlando, Florida. What is Speaker Idol? Think Idol &#8211; Geek Edition. There will be twelve geeks taking the stage to sing and strut their stuff.* The Honourable Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks fame will be hosting. We&#8217;ve each got 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}