Valleywag is so bored they got nothing else to do but blog about boring conferences.

I’m not surprised that Mike Arrington forgot about some speech he had to give - he did that to us in Amsterdam in June.

But Dave Winer says it best “there’s just nothing to do” at these conferences - which is why some of us just fall asleep. I sure as hell hope we have something to do in Paris this year. something like Mena Trott yelling at Ben Metcalfe - that was a hoot!

One conference I didn’t fall asleep at was Rafat Ali’s recent “Future of Business Media” in NYC last week. We provided them a social network so that conference attendees could hook up and make appointments, etc.

In his characteristic honest style - Rafat analyzed and laments upon how he could have done better - putting on teh conference. Interesting stuff to see coming from a conference giver. I wonder if Chris Pirillo would ever do that? Or Kevin Werbach or John Battelle?

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