I had a great time at the TechCrunch party last Friday.
I do tend to agree wtih Donna Bogatin at ZDNet that there's a little too much negativity around these types of events.
She also quoted this from Scoble's blog:
You know, what’s the deal with these parties? They are getting to be media events, that’s all. Be seen, and see. Take photos or videos, get videoed or photoed. Talk about tech? I tried. But it was just too noisy to have a decent conversation on video.
In my humble opinion I think that Scoble as a media star may have a slightly skewed take on the event. He was out there trying to interview people on video in the middle of a party. Umm... yeah it's pretty hard to that!
My own experience was that I had a great time there meeting people and talking shop. It was a great chance to catch up with folks I hadn't seen in a while and to meet some interesting people there as well.
Why is it that if there is a day full of boring lectures and a party afterwards that everyone calls it a conference and if there's just the party (where you learn way more) people think it's a sign of apocalypse and call it a bubble?
Special shout out to Thor Muller from Ruby Red Labs whom I keep running into at conferences like Etech and having awesome conversations with but never manage to catch up with even though we live in the same city.
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