This year at Gnomedex I participated with a few other folks off the trodden path in a quiet, out of the way room. Some of those in attendance were Mark Chernesky, Chris Brogan, Greg Cangialosi, some more friends and a couple ridiculously large cruise ships outside the window.
The payoff for hanging out in this side room were the great conversations that we had about new media, emerging media, blog networks, new search spidering and mainstream media acceptance of emerging media techniques (they're more nimble than you think).
Fortunately, I had brought my mobile studio gear and recorded 14 podcasts from the time in that room. Enjoy!