My friends Stowe Boyd and Marc Canter think that the notion of conference is now passe and they should be replaced by "a brand. An IRC channel, a Wiki and a marketplace".

Maybe you guys have been going to too many conferences (well... actually you seem to be going to all conferences).

I think that meeting at conferences from time to time is nice, you hear voices, see and smell people in 3D, eat together, discuss in ways which are simply not possible on an a wiki.

You simply don't have to go to all of them.

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