I’ll be covering TechCrunch Disrupt in Manhattan on and off during the next 3 days – as I can – for Webmetricsguru.com.

I’ll should be able to cover this part tomorrow

9:00am	Opening Remarks Mike Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch
9:15am	The Big Picture: Tectonic Shifts in Technology, Special Series with Charlie Rose Charlie Rose, Host, Charlie Rose Show John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
9:50am	Charlie Rose, Host, Charlie Rose Show Yuri Milner, CEO & Founding Partner, Digital Sky Technologies

1:55pm Fireside: Social Networks & Online Content: Where’s it Going?
Mike Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch
Jason Hirschhorn, Co-President, MySpace
Mike Jones, Co-President, MySpace

5:30pm Does The IPad Change Everything For News, Or Is It Still All About The Web?
David Carr, Writer, New York Times
Ron Conway, Angel Investor, SV Angel
Eric Hippeau, CEO, Huffington Post
Norm Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg

It’s been a while since I attended a TechCrunch Event – they don’t do many in New York and the last one I went to was in November of  2007.

As always, there are plenty of people covering the blow by blow description of what people are saying while I’ll focus on overall trends and meaning.

Interestingly, there’s no mention of tweetups (besides the “Tweetup Company Launch” happening on Monday morning) where other people who aren’t going to TechCrunch Disrupt might  be dropping by – my sense is there will be events like that – but they are not publicized – those are the kind I prefer actually – it gives me a chance to get closer to the people on the stage – the people you usually can’t get too close to.

Those are the people I like to talk with – and … ask them unstructured questions.  To the extent I can – I’ll try to find some of that this week though it’s shaping up to be an extremely packed pre-memorial day events list in NYC.

By the way I’m assuming that TechCrunch Disrupt NYC implies there will be other Disrupt conferences in other cities – and this is but the first.   The other thought I had is how much TechCrunch Disrupt might be overlapping with the Always ON conferences – the last one of those I attended was a few years ago in NYC at the Mandarin Hotel – and Always ON is all about Disrupters.

It’ll be interesting to compare and see what makes TechCrunch Disrupt different than Always ON (but I haven’t been to a Always On conference  for a while – so they may have changed).