Being a search marketer, I was a bit taken aback by one marketer who basically "slammed" the BlogHer Conference. Lisa Barone, of Bruce Clay who also attened BlogHer '08, wrote a great post countering this negative posting by a male blogger.
I felt that people in the search industry needed to also understand that this wasn't a SEARCH conference in any way, and it was completely different.
Here's a piece from that blog post: