Sebastian brings up a good point – one we've both discussed and I agree with – Conference Fatigue has set in for both Webmasterworld and Search Engine Strategies – the content from year to year is close to 95% the same thing – is the 5% that's new make it worth attending? 

Probably not any longer.   According to Webanalyticsbook.com:

"…I was just reading a bunch of posts with the summaries of the Pubcon sessions and I am pretty sure that besides networking (and meeting friends), I haven’t missed anything.

I wonder why the same people are always on the stage giving the same speeches over and over again.  And not only for one, two conferences, but year after year.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people are very disappointed with conferences like Pubcon Pubcon.

All the more reason to go to Webmasterworld Pubcon in November, Danny Sullivan is going to be doing a Keynote there. 

"This will surely get tongues wagging, Danny Sullivan has announced he will be keynoting WebmasterWorld’s PubCon conference in Las Vegas – the same conference that competes with Search Engine Strategies.

Lots of denials that Danny’s joining up with Brett Tabke, but the two of them sure do seem to be getting along well. "

I’ll be at the Emetrics Summit in mid October – and i guess we’ll try for this one as well.

I only took one picture at Webmasterworld Boston Pubcon last week, but SeoBook took many at the Pubcon Wrapup Party and they’re worth a look.

The 2006 Boston Pubcon was great. It was rather small (with about 900 in attendance) but being rather small made it easy to connect with other people. You could go talk to Matt Cutts for like 10 to 20 minutes without having swarms and swarms of people surrounding you.

That’s larger than I thought – to me it looked more like 500-600 people.