As someone who attends all these conferences…cough…I can do my best to connect some dots for you.
At BlogHer (had you gone) you would have obviously not missed the panel on open source with 2008 Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award Winner Angela Byron. Or maybe you would have skipped the morning brunch offsite where we met to create a position paper to be submitted to the Democratic National Committee for inclusion in the party platform…seeing as you are Pajamas Media and all. But back at the BlogHer con you might have seen the race and gender session that brought the house down? No? Missed that…ok how about all the political sessions with congresswomen and surrogates and netroots? No? Then you must have seen the Content sessions and monetization sessions and the OTHER open source session, and the fundraising and activism online session and the online photography session …I could go on.
Of course at SXSW I attended a Sex, Intimacy & Online Relationships…one about “Why Sewing and Knitting Still Matter” and “Diaper Diarists” oh and also “Pet Blogging: Not a Fluffy Puppy Story” but hey, you probably didn’t hear about them because they weren’t in the style section of the NYT.
Silly me.
