Quarantined Conferences: Claustrophobic Technophiles or Attentive Audiences?

This post was originally published on O’Reilly Radar on November 11, 2009. It’s still one of my favorites – I like the notion of a “quarantined” event during which you’re not allowed to use social media and are forced to enjoy the performance in the moment (like watching the opera or a symphony or something). [...]