That’s the silver lining in what became, for me at least, a big, ugly, gray cloud of negativity. As the second speaker started, people on BackNoise started bashing his PowerPoint slide design, and then his content. His content was pretty basic – I wasn’t learning anything new – so I distracted myself by continuing to watch the conversation on BackNoise. It degenerated from bad to worse. As the day went on, there were some posts of substance, such as people saying that they wanted more “how to” information than they were getting.