ConFonz put it in words, here it is in pictures: Sun's JavaOne conference fills the Moscone Center with beanbag chairs, applet hounds, and mobile developers. Paul Boutin provides photos by Patrick McGovern.

A techie marketing scenester fills in the deets on Steve Gillmor's somnolent speech (Steve's computer nodded off) at the ongoing Syndicate conference. He tosses in a bonus warning about Macromedia founder Marc Canter (pictured here at another conference).

NYC tech-and-media conference Syndicate is turning into SXSW Interactive for big kids. The latest gossip: A cabal of attendees whipped up tees commemorating the union of PR bloggers Jeremy Pepper and Steve Rubel.

A Syndicate attendee says ZDNet pundit Steve Gillmor talked so long at the conference that his screensaver came on. Brian Oberkirch Flickr'd it under "Spacing Out."

Oh BBC, aren't you above this sort of thing? Not just running a four-year-late trend story on blogs' influence — "The impact of blogging has reached a tipping point, argues Julian Smith, senior analyst at Jupiter Research" — but tying it to the recent We Media conference.

OnHollywood, the conference held by the Tony Perkins's AlwaysOn Network that's just now wrapping up, shows the signs of a good and bad event. The good: A decent Flickr pool. The bad: A cluster on Tech Memeorandum. But the Flickr stream proves this was a missable event, or at least required a Web 2.0 Kool-Aid apéritif.

Three months after San Fran's Mac World Expo, there's finally evidence that women did attend. Codesignal.com interviewed them on camera. Amazingly, most of them weren't booth babes.

¬ The Software 2006 Conference got all Web 2.0, with VC Ray Lane telling companies to go viral. An attendee puts it like this:

It's a twofer today — ConFonz finds the hackers at EclipseCON 2006. Here's the wrap-up, either from ConFonz or from whatever script kiddy took over his laptop.

Valleywag conference correspondent ConFonz pops in from this week's Game Developers Convention in San Jose, where the future's cloudy and the strippers are far away.

Microsoft's Vegas conference, Mix 06, keeps rocking, and still no photos of Bill Gates gettin' funky on the dance floor. In the meantime, blogger Paul Mooney shares his Flickr'd pics from yesterday:

Deep into the quest to make actually attending the ETech conference unnecessary, attendees recap everything for the rest of us:

Backchannel backlash is swift and merciless. When Plum.com's Hans Peter played a loud REM track behind his ETech 2006 presentation, the IRC peanut gallery roasted him as he spoke.

Every good conference (or every terribly boring one) has its IRC channel, a chat room where attendees can trade notes or, more often, snark about the speaker. ETech 2006 attendees and non-attendees can access #etech on irc.freenode.net, but the conference is just winding down.

Another corporate event report from another unfortunate attendee; this poor writer's pain is our glee. Here's the scoop from a Sony fest from San Fran's Beat neighborhood.

A secret source at the OpSource Software as a Service Summit reports on a tiff between the skin peelers and software dealers. Straight from Napa, and drunk enough for Gawker Media, is our guest contributor.