The news Monday was that Al Gore had agreed to deliver the keynote at the 2008 RSA Conference in San Francisco in April.
Now we learn that Gore has barred the media from attending his speech — he’ll appear only on condition that the working press are kept out, and that “Video recordings, broadcasts and photography are also prohibited.”
OK, so the Goracle is going to talk to a gathering of 17,000 tech whizzes, and he thinks no one is going to have a Treo or iPhone with them? One is tempted to view this as a cunning ploy to have 17,000 individual reports of your speech going out on the web.
Why the secrecy? Maybe Gort is planning on a self-deprecating joke about his invention of the intranets. More likely is that he’s just going to deliver his stump WE’RE ALL DOOMED speech – and at $100,000 a pop, you don’t want to give away access to that for free.
UPDATE: A Corner reader has a different take, and finds here proof that John Derbyshire is right — Gore will run (but only after he loses a few pounds).