It's been bad enough to watch Ray Hair and his relentlessly collegial IEB give this blog absolutely nothing to write about over the past three years; didn't they care how damaging it would be to us online troublemakers for them to bring peace and financial responsibility to the AFM?
But now they've really gone too far; in an obvious effort to make my AFM Convention Diary blog completely unnecessary, they've announced that the Convention will be streamed live. Of course, access to the stream will be restricted to AFM members, so those four or five people who aren't AFM members who might be interested in whatever will happen at the Convention will still provide me with a reason for blogging, I guess. And, as former delegates know, staying awake during everything that happens at an AFM Convention can be a challenge even for union geeks, so perhaps my reporting will still be useful to normal AFM members as well.
But this is still a blow for those who believe that Conventions should neither be seen nor heard, as well as those of us who've made our tiny online reputations by trying to pierce the veil of secrecy provided by the era of having to send smoke signals and snail mail to communicate to those on the outside of the convention ballroom.
Transparency is a bitch.
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