No CES for me this year

Michael Wolf is right on, at GigaOM, when he questions the long-term importance of CES.  I got a lot out of attending in person last year, but I bet I’ll get even more out of it this year by not attending.

There is value in having a shared experience, being someplace in person with other people with your interests. And of course it’s nice to feel and interact with the products instead of just seeing the videos. But the number of face-to-face interactions you have these days is so much smaller than what you can do online, especially now that we have Twitter and a zillion other ways to be social virtually.