July 27, 2010

The May Report: 7/27/2010: A reader responds to May and Katt with the
suggestion that we have too many Johns and Jerries; Tell ‘em ‘Ron May sent me’
and there is no charge for the July 27 (tonight) art outreach event….

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[Editor's note: May here. This is a very truncated report becaquse the event
starts in an hour. Lyn Williams just called and while she can't pay for your
drinks, she can give you free admission if you mention The May Report.]
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The Scoop section:

— Mention The May Report and no charge for admission to the 2010 Great
American Artist Search in Chicago
— Chicago’s Tech Scene and Various “Johns” and “Jerries”
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The Scoop section:
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Mention The May Report and no charge for admission to the 2010 Great American
Artist Search in Chicago

May here. Just mention The May Report at the desk or talk to Lyn Williams and
get free admission to 2010 Great American Artist Search in Chicago which saves
you $12. Laurie Sheer of FlashPoint Academy will be there along with two
hundred others.

Subject: Re: Lyn, your event notice and Naylor info. please.
Date: 6/29/2010 8:08:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: lyn@mysoiree.net
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com

HI Ronald,
Thank you for taking my call today. Here is the company that David Naylor is
currently working for, he is Principal Architect at Grid Dynamics.

Here is the information for our event coming to Chicago.

2010 Great American Artist Search in Chicago
July 27th, 2010 8:00 PM @
Reggies Rock Club
2109 South State St
Chicago, IL
2010 North American MySoirée .net Art Tour brought to
you by
Soirée International Inc.
8pm-12am
Host LynE Williams, West Coast’s Finest DJ Lamont Young, and a multi media show
including Chicago’s Celebrity Visual artists.
The worlds most amazing visual art is brought to you with the hottest music
where you connect!

Get Tickets at Mysoireechicago.eventbrite.com

Celebrity visual artists take center stage, fans will vote at the event for
their favorite artist, the winner will represent Chicago at the 2010 North
American Mysoiree.net Art Tour in Las Vegas.
Artists Participating
Jack Siegel
Diana Arand
Neeka Allsup
Jennifer Hines
Inna Deriy
Fred Deasis
Anastasia Mak
Anne Elisabeth Hogh

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San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
San Jose, CA
Chicago, IL
Los Angeles
Laguna Beach, CA
San Diego, CA
Santa Fe, NM
Phoenix, AZ
Austin, TX
Las Vegas

Sincerely,

Lyn E. Williams
CEO
Soirée International Inc.

2010 North American Mysoiree Art Tour
Chicago, IL July 27th mysoireechicago.eventbrite.com/

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Chicago’s Tech Scene and Various “Johns” and “Jerries”

Subject: Chicago’s Tech Scene and Various “Johns” and “Jerries”
Date: 7/27/2010 1:37:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: Name withheld upon request
To: ronaldmay@aol.com

Ron,

Please do not print my name or contact info.

I just read your July 26th (or is it 27th?) post. A few thoughts come to mind.

a) The dissatisfaction of a returned Chicago expat (John K) hardly seems to be
definitive proof that the Chicago “tech scene is dead”. Although not myself a
part of it, I pick up enough anecdotal confirmation that it is alive and
kicking in the circles I travel. Since I make no claim to either being “in” nor
in being part of that scene itself, it suggests that many of the belly-gazers
who regularly pontificate about it are aspiring vendors on the periphery,
chomping to get a piece of the pie.

b) Although I very much enjoy reading your posts – always entertaining – my
suspicion is that many of the self-proclaimed experts, ala John Dallas, are
poseurs. I know John personally and while I don’t think he is a bad guy I do
not think he is very qualified for any of the things that I have heard him
advanced as a speaker about. In that same camp I would include some of the
others who, Paris Hilton-like, have become prominent in your pages by dint of
repetition. Names that come to mind here would be self-proclaimed China experts
John Rogers and Jerry Mitchell (as far as I am aware, neither one speaks,
reads, nor writes Mandarin and neither has ever lived as a resident in China -
yet both make loud noises about setting up businesses in China, etc.). But
plenty of others have paraded through over the years to make me feel that this
is a large crowd.

My other sense is that the notoriety of your press keeps some very tuned in
people away from you. I don’t know this conclusively but I am aware of
individuals I know in the private equity world who are prominent nationally
(and in some cases internationally) and who are long-time Chicago residents but
whose names have never graced the electronic pages of TMR. Since that again is
another field that while not directly a part of I have some fishbowl-like
access to, it offers me what I think is a reasonable yardstick for judgement.

The suggestion/conclusion I come to here, is that if you started a sister
publication that truly kept sources secret and /or found some way to cross
check sources before publication (ala the way academic journals cross check
third parties before publishing their work) the information flow would remain
the same or better but the quality of that flow would improve.

Don’t get me wrong Ron: the “scoops” you often uncover are fascinating and may
very well be dependent on your current style of info collection. But all too
often the charlatans, crooks, and conmen slip in as well.

Keep up the great work Ron and get better soon. In the meantime I look forward
to my next “TMR fix”!
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