That ol's sycophant Doc is also at Supernova (emphasis mine):
Kevin is introducing the Supernova conference. Decentralization is the theme. The energy in the room is fun, attentive... nice. So many people I really dig here. Can't begin to name them all (follow the link above). He's talking about What's Happening Now as something akin to a star exploding. It's that big a deal. Makes me think of a bomb going off in space; hence the subhead above. Anyway, rather than cover what speakers are saying (others will, I'm sure), I'll just gurge a few thoughts as they come along.
This is what "realtime blogging" has come to. Imagine if you opened the Times tomorrow and the lead graf of a story said:
Since this has probably already been covered by the Washington Post, we'll just talk about some random stuff in this space.
This sort of thing - along with the goodly amount of blogdropping going on - make me suspect that this is not so much about the conference as it is about exclusivity - i.e. I'm here, you're not. Which ties in interestingly to the brouhaha surrounding Shelley's astute call of the same on Clay Shirky's Social Software Summit. Shelley annoys all the right people in my book, which always happens when someone speaks truth to power.