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John Dvorak wouldn't get any page views if he said "X was OK", so in typical fashion he bashes Web 2.0 Expo although he probably spent all of 10 minutes on the premises.

His main thesis is that it was full of 20-29 year olds all wanting to get rich quick.

I was there this year, and found the opposite. Most of the people I met were on the other side of 30.

That being said, I also thought that the Web 2.0 Expo was poor. The core problem is that I wasn't the target audience of the event. I would like some content with my talks. Here we saw classics such as "widgets are cool. come getsome" and "blogs are a good thing" and "collaboration wins".

As I flicked through the sessions, I saw a paltry few that I would like to attend. It would be nice to go to the Django talk. Brad on the Dojo Offline Toolkit... sure. Erm, hmm. What else?

I was hoping that the event would be tech heavy, and all about pushing the boundaries of what we somehow call Web 2.0. Instead, it was a set of intro courses.

A lot of people were there though, so maybe the bulk of people liked it. Many of the audience seemed to be very light on technical backgrounds and more "I want to somehow be involved in Web 2.0".

I enjoyed the usual though... seeing old friends who popup at these things. The conferences within the conferences. That is why people enjoy the unconferences these days. They make the "chatting in the halls" the conference itself.