Although I've never been to a developer conference in person, probably a majority of my YouTube time is listening to conference talks that are the best (or only

Although I've never been to a developer conference in person, probably a majority of my YouTube time is listening to conference talks that are the best (or only) multimedia available about a topic. They do seem to give certain people the motivation to put together presentations that they aren't finding elsewhere. (Err, motivation that they aren't finding elsewhere.) I hope that either conferences survive or the experience of self-producing multimedia content can somehow evolve to fill the motivation void that would be left behind.