I appreciate your efforts, Steve, to encourage good questions and good explanations that help to educate, clarify and/or possibly intrigue us to check things out further. I also recognize you're part of a business to make a profit, and getting high caliber consultants to contribute for free is really a boon for you. But, there are plenty of other venues for distributing advertisements for pay-for events - e.g., blog postings, special emails to subscribers. The QoD is not one that comes quickly to mind.

Paul, I am a consultant as well, so I recognize the cost of the time involved in putting good information together. I applaud your contribution along with all of the good (free) information that you've made available to all of us in several venues. Please keep up the good work. Maybe you can arrange with Steve to send out one advertisement email for each 2 or 3 QoDs you provide. That could include links to register, etc. I'd like that better.

Joe