Micah Sifry responds to my critique of Personal Democracy Forum: "I'm sorry if the morning sessions at PdF were too remedial or lecture-like for your taste."

Yeah, me too.

My response to Micah. Another review here from Caren Rabbino: " I feel more depleted than inspired by the PDF conference...not a single moment of social or political transgression in 10 hours of conferencing with 600 people or so."

I really respect Micah, and I got a lot out of the weekend (some notes on Saturday's unconference TK). He and Andrew are doing good things (not just the conference -- here's a cool project Andrew mentioned at PDF, and here's an essential resource for anyone following the 2008 presidential campaign). They worked their asses off to create a well-run, high-profile event, and I'm grateful for that. But it felt a little behind the curve to me, and it doesn't do anyone any good to pretend otherwise.