Charles N. Brown has died

Charlie Brown the found and publisher of Locus the science fiction review magazine died in his sleep on the way home from ReaderCon Sunday July 12, 2009. He co-founded Locus and eventually took it over publishing it often with one of his two wives in the San Francisco Bay area since 1972. Locus has won 29 Hugo awards since its founding.

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/07/charles-n-brown-1937-2009.html

Things Change and so do conventions:

I had been thinking that Anticipation should be doing convention programming updates on Twiiter and low and behold Scott Edelman observed the practice happening spontaneously at Readercon.

http://tinyurl.com/lhxeo5

In Montreal the problem will be the lack of American cell phone coverage.

Still people may be able to use Wifi to update Twitter.