The first speaker, at the Blog World Expo, was the CEO of Technorati, Richard Jalichandra.
Richard spoke, in a calm deep voice, as he began to give hints of Technorati's upcoming State of the Blogosphere report for 2008.
As you can see, from this photograph, we were right up front and center to hear from the keynote speakers.
Technorati will be releasing the results of this massive annual study over the next 5 days. For those who are serious about building a business, in this new media, this report will be a must read. Jalichandra commented that there are massive amounts of advertising dollars coming to this medium.