"What if you threw a conference and everybody came, but no one paid attention? A New York Times event for Web developers drew a crowd who sat and Twittered instead of listening to the speaker." - Derek Collison

One of the commenters on Valleywag said "I find it deeply ironic that the New York Times, a media company that until recently hand-coded a lot of their website, is running a symposium on web development. Talk about the blind leading the sighted. " Which is sadly ignorant of them, because the team over at the NYTimes Open program (http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/ and http://developer.nytimes.com) is doing cutting-edge work and setting an example for all to follow. - DeWitt Clinton