My thoughts exactly!

Dave, There's a lot in what you say that I agree with. Heck, god knows I'd write the same things, because I would have been just as excited. But I'd take precautionary measures and made sure my blogging would be done in a separate place where the "noise" would be separate from real content. At least for the "find me at..." posts, there are better ways of dealing with this.
Also, the main point was to try and make out where to get *content* from the sessions. If all the content would be drowned out by all the noise, then all the PDC blog readers would not achieve their ultimate goal - try and get information.
Still, I totally get you. I too like to read the small stories that make up a day in the life of so and so, and It really bothers me that I'm writing against doing these. But my main goal here was just to *redirect* them at a more appropriate place, so that I can wade through them at my *own* time, and not when I want to get real information.
The last thing I wanted to come off as was a "just give me the juice" type of guy.

Okay Dave, tell me this: _your_ post here... what does it have to do with .NET?

Um, uh.... well.... it has.... NOTHING to do with it, right?

Then why post it on something called .NET weblogs?

One: I mean this with all due respect to you - I'm merely making a point. Two: consider that this post of your is probably more interesting than the bulk of things coming over the wire today. (If I wanted an airport flight delay report I could watch The Weather Channel.)

My complaint has nothing to do with squelching excitment of people 20 years younger than me attending their first conference. It has everything to do with what Roy spoke of.... noise.

Dave, I guess it has to do with the COMMUNITY of .NET users, the guys I read every day and imagining them getting to know each other better in LA or by extension imagining myself making the trip and hangin' with them as well (though I'm REAL happy I missed a round-trip flight from Vermont to LA to see stuff I'm sure I'll see plenty of in many months to come before I even see a CD.)

The more I think of it, had I gone to the PDC it would have been as much to meet the guys whose blogs I've been reading as it would be to sit in on the sessions. Then again, most of them are in the "20 years younger than me" category so we probably wouldn't have a whole lot in common. :-)

Yeah, there's lots of noise on the wire today. I agree with both you and Roy on this, for sure. But a clear channel in an aggregated feed is hard to come by any day.

I would like to talk more about the noise issue, but it would only result in more noise on the wire, I'm afraid. So for now I'll just say thanks for your comments!