I went last year. Lots of fun. Cory Doctorow was probably the best speaker. I hadn't read BoingBoing much before that, and now I'm a rapid fan. I think the di

I went last year. Lots of fun. Cory Doctorow was probably the best speaker. I hadn't read BoingBoing much before that, and now I'm a rapid fan. I think the discussion with Luddites was fairly useless. It shows a fair amount of due diligence, where dissenting voices are given a podium far larger than the they "deserve" given the popularity of their opinions. I did enjoy that the Luddite gave a talk through teleconference. The format last year was pretty bad at times. The Open-Mic questions wasted lots of time. Written questions were submitted but not used. There were no break-off sessions. Also, the moderator, Peter Thiel, is as boring as watching paint dry, and didn't actually do any reasonable moderation of the discussion.