Relative is relative

Jeff Atwood reveals what he likes about Microsoft's MIX conference: What I love about Mix is that it...is relatively small and intimate, at around 2,000 attendees. Sheesh! The 360Flex conference had about 340 attendees and the CFUnited conferences don't feel more than maybe twice that. I can't imagine how a conference the size of Mix or Max feels with thousands of people milling about. Much less being able to call two thousand people "intimate".