OLA! more grumbles about conferences

In my dream vision, you easily are able to get all of the info related to a conference: blogging about it, blogging of particular sessions, presentations from those sessions, photos, etc.

I think agreeing on a standard and unique tag for each conference will get most of the way there.
Of course, there are a lot of conferences, and only so many three-or-four letter combinations.

Ontario Library Association Superconference.  OLA2005?  OLAS2005?

Anyway, this rant because it is human nature not to invest much time in something that's complete,
plus it's human nature not to do things that are complicated.

Conferences build these big static websites ahead of time, which after the event, I can see, who wants to go and update everything after you're already done, the event was a success, it's time to move on.

What they should have instead is dynamic pages or a wiki, editable by the presenters.

Anyway, you can find some of the OLA 2005 presentations by navigating through their various session pages.  There does not seem to be one unified all-sessions page.

(report that presentations have been posted via Inforumed)

So you will find some presentations by wandering around the site, but you will also for example find no presentation attached to e.g.

Session: 115
9:00 am - 10:15 am
Technology
HOW TO USE RSS TO KNOW MORE AND DO LESS
Jenny Levine, Internet Development Specialist; The Shifted Librarian.

despite the fact that she has already posted the presentations in her blog.