Scott Beale recalls the importance of BarCamp in bringing together key figures of Web 2.0, including Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington, two of the most influential Web 2.0 bloggers: “BarCamp is seminal. This is like the most important thing of all of this … Scoble came by, and he was really into it. It was actually the very first public demo of Flock and Pandora. It was a really big deal, those things coming out of it, and the funny thing that we always think about is Arrington was there. None of us knew him.”

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 162