Another blogpost about twitter… yawn.
but – as Trevor says:
"I'm not seeing the frantic, multimodal ETech blog coverage as in past years. Has it jumped the shark or am I just unsubscribed?"
Even the most prolific conference liveblogger I know, Alice, has just been spooling flickr pics with the occasional contextual paragraph.
Chris and I (neither of whom are at Etech) were talking about this yesterday over lunch. I have a different theory – Twitter has given people a backchannel that doesn't require a laptop – which means less time in a blog writing environ.
'Context Spooling' has displaced blogging…?
Discuss!
Petafloptimism 
Well, I barely had a laptop during the conference, and even when I did, I tended to go for paper notes (how retro!) instead. IRC seemed as busy a backchannel as ever when I was there, though. Maybe it's just the influence of bite-sized culture: writing posts takes time.