But his hour-long keynote speech at Berlin's World Architecture festival went further in expounding his radical worldview than he had ever yet dared.
Book tours are exhausting enterprises, and this one has required an hour-long keynote speech to 250 librarians and teachers, my participation in one panel called Let's Talk About Sex and another about Writing in an Age of Terror - and just about everything in between.
And, in a break from the past, Apple is taking part, giving top billing for a two-and-a-half-hour-long keynote address from Jobs that will open Macworld Expo in San Francisco on Jan .7. Apple promises that Jobs' presentation will blow away the faithful.
During the entire hour-plus-long keynote, the word "Vista" was only uttered once, and then only in the context of Windows Live compatibility, and in the same quick breath as Windows XP and Windows 7. It's clear Ballmer is giving up the fight on Vista, though the company will still try to unload as many copies of it as possible before Windows 7 is released, presumably around the end of 2009.
Brown's latest act reflects how the job of becoming Obama for eight years has changed him, a deeply personal story that morphs his standard 30-minute act into a far more sober hour-long keynote.
In one of the longest keynotes from Apple for years – two full hours – Tim Cook and colleagues tried to fight back after a tough year.
Honchos in all sorts of industries have long studied keynote speeches by Steve Jobs, Apple's boss, for ways to cast spells on audiences; now they also need to work out how he outsourced his product marketing to an entire nation of volunteers.In this section A high-speed revolution The diddle kingdom No ketchup, please A change of tune Where would Jesus queue?
After the long, dull keynote speech he made at the 1988 Democratic convention (I was there and the only cheers he got was when he said "and finally" before droning on) he would never have become the successful nominee four years later if he hadn't taken his sax (and dark glasses) on the Saturday night TV circuit to grovel – and play Heartbreak Hotel.
His company Oracle is staging its annual conference in San Francisco, attracting thousands of participants, but Ellison decided not to deliver his long-scheduled keynote address to the conference Tuesday so he could watch his team from the same chase boat where he was watching it lose earlier in September.
Google Fit has risen as part of a prodigious, two-and-a-half-hour-long I/O keynote that included everything but the kitchen sink (and Google Glass and Google+).
Saturday night's long-planned keynote speaker will be former presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina, named on Wednesday as Cruz's running mate.
