I’m not sure I’ll be coming back. Actually, I might come back for the growing offsite stuff. I’ve done more networking in the Piano Bar (and there’s a new venture fund starting around that) than anywhere else and I have one of the famed white badges.

The dinners are still great, though. I was involved on one on social media. That’s where you can meet a lot of new people very effectively (I met an autism researcher, for instance).

The Forum still does try to stop outside events, by the way.

Another lesson here, one that I was taught over and over during my Salon years is: Any time you have to wonder whether a problem is the result of somebody’s bad behavior or a software bug, assume it’s the software until proven otherwise.