O'Reilly "postpones" its energy conference

Is it a watershed in our industry? Or just bad management?

Media company O'Reill—best known for its IT books—has abandoned its planned energy industry conference.

Titled "Energy Innovation" and scheduled for August 22nd through 24th in San Francisco, the conference has been "postponed," organizers admitted to the Cleantech Group.

Indeed, the conference's website has been taken down and removed with a placeholder.

Registrations had been disappointing, the head of marketing intimated.

Perhaps it was indicative of what attendees might expect when O'Reilly, in a press release last month, identified planned speaker Vinod Khosla as a partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.

Khosla hasn't been with Kleiner since 2005.

Does this mean one can no longer just hang out a shingle and automatically make money in all the cleantech and energy-related kerfuffle today? Say it ain't so.