1.	Last week I attended the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference where there were dozens of bloggers, and many of the sessions were about doing weblogs, the future of the medium, and standards for making the products work more powerfully for users.
2.	A couple of months ago at Esther Dyson's PC Forum conference, Dan Gillmor, Cory Doctorow and Doc Searls, all experienced webloggers, with the help of Buzz Bruggeman, a person who viewed the conference only through the Web, raised the awareness of this art to a much broader group of people. The epiphanies were very exciting. If you don't believe me, ask Esther, Kevin Werbach, Dan, Cory, Doc and Buzz.
3.	In July, I will participate in the O'Reilly Open Source conference in San Diego. This may be the first conference in history to premeditate support for real-time publishing, doing simple things like providing power strips and good desks for people reporting the sessions on the Web. I'm anxious to help them any way I can. This is exciting new technology, very relevant for the art of conferences.
4.	PopTech, a conference in Maine in October is going even further, according to Robert Scoble, who is participating in the planning of the conference. Sounds like I should plan to be there.