BloggerCon or Laptops -- Que es mas macho?

Both Dave and Jon Robb cited thisBryan Bell pic of the Day 1 meeting room at BloggerCon today. I was pretty amazed (during Day 2, when I was there) at how many people were concentrating so hard on their laptops while the conference was going on.

This is exactly why I came with only a pad and a pen. If you are not going to give your full attention to the speaker and the other attendees, why attend? If you are going to treat the session you are in like I do the television every night (e.g., some nice background while I blog, answer email, etc.), then what are you truly getting out of it?

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[enoch]

i was blogging my notes live. yeah, a bit distracted at times, but only when i wanted to be. it's a balance, although i was more focused on the speakers since i could pen my notes about what they were warbling about, at times i wanted to do personal stuff. Lots of folks were carrying on a conversation behind the speakers' backs, via IRC (internet relay chat- a live bbs). For me, that would be too distracting. Blogging notes live was enough work ;)