Nick Denton sez that blogs aren't gonna change the NYT any time soon, but conferences are in for a blogistan overhaul.
My recommendation to conference organizers: hire some webloggers to report on your conference, and link to other posts; put up a conference news blog on the web; make that the default page on the internet terminals; and inject weblog commentary into the discussion. For instance, the moderator ought to be browsing weblogs in real time for points and questions to put to the panelists.