Papercamp
Saturday saw the inaugural papercamp prototype, which was excellent. Jeremy and Matt have already written up overviews, and there's lots of photos and that.
For me, one of the best things about it was just how fresh it all felt. Compared to a standard web (un)conference where everyone knows their space, expertise and opinions, here lots (most?) of us were exploring stuff outside of our day job and business-as-usual. It was passionate and interesting and I felt completely out of my depth, which was was great.
So in 2009, less of the comfort zone stuff please, and more like this.