“A miffed Mac user is asking fellow Apple fans to protest Steve Jobs’ decision not to participate in next month’s Macworld conference by remaining absolutely silent during a keynote presentation by Jobs’ stand-in,” Paul McDougall reports for InformationWeek. “‘Let there be no applause, no whistling just utter and complete silence,’ wrote Lesa Snider King, on a Web page she posted in order to publicize her campaign.”

“Apple earlier this week stunned the tech world with its announcement that Jobs would not deliver his annual keynote at Macworld… and that Apple itself would pull out of the convention following the 2009 show in San Francisco,” McDougall reports. “Apple said the Macworld 2009 keynote will be delivered by senior marketing VP Philip Schiller instead of Jobs.”

MacDailyNews Take: It won’t work. Little applause, no whistling, and general silence are Phil’s trademarks.

McDougall continues, “IDG, Macworld’s host, said in a statement this week that it has no plans to discontinue the conference, despite Apple’s withdrawal. ‘We are obviously disappointed in Apple’s decision not to participate in Macworld 2010,’ IDG said. Still, the company added, ‘We look forward to many more successful years of Macworld to come.’”

MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, right. As George Santayana wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

The past, in chronological order:
• MacWorld east coast show close to moving to Boston – September 25, 2002
• Macworld returning to Boston (traffic hellhole) – October 07, 2002
• MacWorld Boston 2004 Fruitless – October 16, 2002
• Apple and IDG: ‘bye ‘bye MacWorld NYC, hello CREATE conference – March 26, 2003
• Baltimore Sun: no MacWorld NYC 2003; no Jobs keynote; 40% drop in exhibitors – April 03, 2003
• Pseudo MacWorld NYC to be a snorefest – July 14, 2003
• Already wrecked pseudo Macworld backing out of Boston; wants to stay in NYC – August 08, 2003
• MacWorld Boston snoozefest: Apple, other major exhibitors won’t be there – June 12, 2004
• Pseudo MacWorld Boston a snorefest – July 15, 2005
• Pseudo Macworld Expo Boston euthanized – September 16, 2005
• East coast Macworld Expo dead; IDG head: ‘Macworld is only going to happen once a year, in January, in California’ – August 11, 2003

Full article here.

Snider King’s “Silent Keynote” webpage is “here.