Oh, Scooby-Don’t…

You could not be more wrong in your post last week–titled, “Why Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg are wrong about naming Web 3.0 ‘Web 3.0′”–about Walt and I being wrong about naming Web 3.0 “Web 3.0″ in an essay we posted at the start of our D: All Things Digital conference, which took place last week.

I know writing “Kara Swisher,” “Walt Mossberg” and “Wrong” is well-nigh irresistible, but your solution of calling the digital era we are in the “2010 Web” is equally confusing and incorrect.

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Incredibly, this is the seventh year of the D: All Things Digital conference.

We feel very lucky to get here, especially in the midst of what our own site’s Digital Daily scribe, John Paczkowski, has so perfectly dubbed the “econalypse.”

Ironically, Walt Mossberg and I planned to launch the very first conference in the middle of the last major downturn for tech, in 2001. But, in the carnage of the Web 1.0 meltdown, we actually held off for two years, with our first D gathering taking place in 2003.

Well, we’re still going–making the same long-term bet that the digital revolution will keep rolling as we did at D1. Here’s our lineup for D7.

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The national PR tour of Twitter co-founder How-To-Succeed-in-Biz-Without-Really-Trying Stone continues tonight with a television appearance that is sure to be tasty.

Stone–who has clearly become the chatty spokesmodel for the hot microblogging service at public events all over the place of late–is set to be a guest on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.”

I have no doubt it will be snarktastic–video to be posted later, but here is a video of Stephen Colbert on the Internet and Jon Stewart of the “The Daily Show” on Twittermania.

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Peter Chernin might be going from News Corp. But he’s not forgotten, at the least by our little tech Web site (see, Peter, we still like you, even if you’re–almost–no longer our boss!).

In fact, you can see him in action after the jump in a video, talking about digital issues and more in a long interview I did with him onstage at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference in 2007.

Will the 57-year-old Chernin–who was top choice to head Yahoo and has been mentioned as a possible leader at Apple–have his next act in tech?

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Time Inc., the largest magazine company in the world, is laying off hundreds and reorganizing itself drastically, due to tough economic conditions, especially in advertising, as well as the more inexorable diminishing of its business as readers move to the Web.

Time Inc. Chairman and CEO Ann Moore penned the email memo to employees tonight. She tried to tout gains in its digital business–part of the reason for the reorg is to move more of its content to Web platforms–noting 26 million people visit its Time Inc. sites monthly. Not good enough it seems.

Here’s the memo.

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Last night, Arizona Sen. John McCain officially accepted the GOP candidacy for President in a speech in which he pushed himself as a change agent, even though the Republicans have been in power for eight years.

Actually, the maverick image was one of the reasons we invited him to our fifth D: All Things Digital conference in 2007.

Since the speech last night had more generalities than specifics, as convention speeches often do, here’s an hour-plus interview with Sen. McCain by Walt Mossberg and me.

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Walt Mossberg interviewed CBS CEO Les Moonves at the fifth edition of our D: All Things Digital conference last May, where he talked about the media giant’s Internet aims.

The 53-minute interview is highly pertinent to today’s acquisition of CNET by CBS for $1.8 billion in cash.

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Don’t miss this video below from WSJ.com last week about AT&T (T) stores using Microsoft’s (MSFT) Surface table-sized touch computer to help customers, which is one of the first commercial applications of the device.
Surface actually got a demo at our D5 conference last May, but BoomTown has been partial to this very funny video spoof [...]

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How far ahead of the political curve is our D: All Things Digital conference?
So far that we put all those bendy-straws-in-the-wind television pundits to shame!
Case in point: At D4, we invited former Vice President Al Gore to come just before everyone decided he was the best thing since organic whole-wheat sliced bread.
And [...]

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Over the next week, I will be posting the most popular videos on BoomTown from 2007.
Before I interviewed Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, the crowd at D5 got to see a very funny video Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert did as an intro for his boss, whom he dubbed the “Dough Man.”
The Dauman interview took place [...]

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Over the next week, I will be posting the most popular videos on BoomTown from 2007.

Here’s the interview Walt Mossberg and I did at D5 with George Lucas.
In it, he describes Internet video-sharing sites like YouTube as a circus (and not in a good way) and compares the quality of its content to throwing “puppies [...]

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Over the next week, I will be posting the most popular videos on BoomTown from 2007.

To kick it off, here’s the interview Walt Mossberg and I did at D5 with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, a truly historic interview with the tech industry’s two main legends.
The discussion took place the evening of May [...]

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News Corp. President and COO Peter Chernin made a funny last week in a video interview on FT.com.
At first, it was all business when Chernin said while he had a “healthy” level of respect and paranoia for Facebook–which is the hot-on-its-heels-second social network breathing down the neck of News Corp.-owned MySpace–that in most countries MySpace [...]

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Can’t be in a multibillion negotiation with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer?
Well, you can see him in action–and in fine form–in this video of the interview he did at D5 this year with Walt Mossberg.
Here, Ballmer talks about a variety of things, such as how to foster innovation at a big company, Windows Vista, immigration, [...]

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Since you did not get to experience the stylings of Steve Jobs at your corporate confab, as the troops over at Yahoo did last Friday, BoomTown will be happy to provide you with the Apple icon unplugged.
Here is an interview he did at this year’s D5 conference in late May with Walt Mossberg:

And as a [...]

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