I should say up front that I'm a bad person to make this argument. I run a site that lists technology conferences, hundreds of them, and I like the things. I like the badge lanyard, the bad coffee, the moment a hall opens and a few thousand people walk in at once. Next month I'm taking a small software studio to Web Summit in Lisbon. So I'm not here to tell anyone to stay home. … [Read more...] about Conferences Are Theatre and the Hallway Is the Product