So BloggerCon II is scheduled to take place on April 17 this year, again in Boston at Harvard.

Happy: there will be a session on weblogs and libraries!
Sad: I have no budget to attend (although I'm really pushing Steven to go).

I'm glad there's a follow-up and that these folks will continue exploring the impact and potential of blogging, but I'm also ready for SyndiCon (or AggregatorCon or whatever you want to call it). As evidenced by Will Richardson's vision among other things, it's time to take syndication to the next level - make it more user-friendly, integrate it into other tools, figure out what users want, and in general take RSS to the next level. Same types of sessions - education, politics, business, libraries, journalism, etc.

The RSS Winterfest was a good start, but it's difficult to over-emphasize the value of this type of conversation taking place in-person, face-to-face. In addition, how great would it be to include an "RSS Hackfest" (led by Andrew Grumet) to get us BitTorrent + RSS, authentication, better customization, metadata, and more?!