I didn’t attend the conference sessions because for $300 I couldn’t justify the expense when official recordings will be available within a week for a fraction of the price and bootlegs from other podcasters are certain to be posted as well. I did hear that some of the sessions were particularly compelling on Friday.

So the main reason to attend were the side conversations with other podcasters and not really the expo itself. I came away from the first PME last November with the take-away that this event is really a gigantic, international podcaster meetup. As cool as it is to talk with Robert Scoble, Andrew Baron from Rocketboom and see a bunch of other podcasters I have been listening to for over two years now, I’m not sure if this is enough to justify flying 2,000 miles to attend. Since next year’s event will be over three days, I hope there is more of a reason than just the social aspects and that there are a lot more software and hardware vendors in attendance.

And now back to normal wine blogging and podcasting