Hacker-camp it up.

Bollocks.

I mean, just look at the place.

Years ago, Stephenson wrote about hacker-tourism... Well, what he was writing turned out to be an extended research piece for Cryptonomicon, and he was looking at the sort of long-lived objects and institutions that tourists look at because they turn up in guidebooks. And they turn up in guidebooks because tourists look at them. (Although that's a conceptual difference, because I'd be pleased to see a guidebook that mentions the Alexandria telephone exchange.)

But anyway. Winer-ish hotel-bound 'blogger-con' or that?

There's no contest.